ARCADE HEAVEN
It’s rather fitting that the latest game cabinet to feature in the Quarter Arcades range is dedicated to celebrating Pac-Man’s 40th anniversary, which took place earlier this year. It’s fitting because it was Namco’s iconic mascot which helped launch the concept of a miniature arcade machine back in December 2018, and since then the development team behind the idea hasn’t looked back.
For Matt Precious, Numskull Designs’ managing partner, this dream of creating miniaturised versions of his favourite arcade games harks back to his own childhood in the Eighties and a desire to recreate the nostalgia of visiting his local arcade. “I was very fortunate to go to school in a seaside town that had some fantastic videogame arcades,” he tells us. “I fell in love with the whole environment, I loved the games, but for me it was all these different cabinets crammed together in the same room, the symphony of noise, the flashing lights.”
Matt’s memories of those early arcade games, and their vivid artwork and interestingly shaped cabs, stayed with him in later years, and eventually he found himself in a position where he could
