The only standing desk I’ll ever consider has four people playing pong at the same time

As uncomfortable as it may seem to some, working at a standing desk is better for your health than lying on a couch all day. But how do you convince millions of people who work responsibly from home to stand all day? You build a standing desk with a built-in retro arcade with even a rare four-player version of Pong.

Arcade1Upknown for its scaled re-enactments of classic arcade cabinets, is slowly expanding its repertoire with other iconic arcade designs, and the company’s latest creation is the Pong 4 Player Pub Table. Decades ago, such arcade machines could be found on the table in restaurants and bars and had a screen (and controls) mounted securely under the surface of the table, allowing players to eat and drink while still pumping quarters in. to play their favorite video games.

The Pong 4 Player Pub Table is a reproduction of those classic designs. Using it as a standing desk is the easiest way to justify it as an essential work purchase, but at the end of the day, you can switch to gorging on retro gaming. The line-up includes games such as Pong, Warlords, Circus Atari, Storm, and Super getaway, as well as games that can take advantage of the four sets of buttons and spinning paddles around the table, such as the four-player Quadra Pong and Pong doubles, and Pong sports.

Pricing and availability have yet to be announced as we move into 2021, but hopefully the table will be available before we all have to leave our home offices.

For years, arcade machines offered advanced gameplay and graphics that were simply impossible to recreate on the home consoles of the 80s and 90s. That’s no longer the case, but in 1983 a new arcade game was introduced that absolutely stunned gamers because it looked like you were playing a Saturday morning cartoon: Dragon’s Lair.

Decades before technologies such as real-time cel-shading on 3D models existed, Dragon’s Lair achieved its groundbreaking graphics through the use of hundreds of hand-animated clips (created by animation legend Don Bluth) played on a laser disc triggered by a player’s in-game choices. It was a beautiful game, and an extremely challenging game, which has been ported to numerous platforms over the years, but Arcade1Up has also announced a recreation of the original. Dragon’s Lair arcade cabinet that matches the same size and scale of the original.

The arcade machine features a 4: 3 ratio high-def transfer of the animations from the original game and also contains the sequel, Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp, like Space Ace. All three have the same hand-animated style. There are no details yet on when the arcade machine will be available but since it is a full size replica you can expect the prices to be slightly higher than Arcade1Up’s other smaller cases.