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Taito’s Egret II Mini is an arcade replica with a rotating screen – Yahoo Finance Australia
Taito is releasing a mini replica of its Egret II sit down arcade cabinet from the ’90s.
Taito, the Square Enix subsidiary behind arcade classic Space Invaders, is jumping on the mini hardware trend in a big way. The Japanese company has unveiled a desktop replica of its sit down arcade machine, the Egret II. Originally released in the mid to late-nineties, the so-called candy cabinet stood out thanks to a rotate mechanism that allowed the screen to be configured vertically for tate-mode games like shoot-em-ups.
Fittingly, the micro-version retains that feature with a 5-inch 4:3 LCD…
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