**SPOILER ALERT** The secret arcade is found inside the castle. There are even Mario music boxes! The first game JK tries is the age-old Pong. It’s paradoxical to watch a gamer playing arcade games, on an in game arcade, on their own self-built arcade unit. Back in the day when Pong was coded, it would have been an intellectual challenge to get all the elements in the right place and considered advanced for its time.
Next up, is Pacman. Who doesn’t love this ride down memory lane? JK makes up for a poor defeat at pong, having jinxed himself, by smashing Pacman like a boss and achieving a respectable score before the ghosts caught up.
What you weren’t expected in this in game arcade? Snake. Yes folks, the originals can never be beaten. Snake was first published on a Telmac 1800, CHIP-8 in 1978. In my childhood, it was an old Nokia 3310 that I would rob off my own parents to play this exact game. Now watch in awe as this 6-year-old takes only seconds to recognise what this game is after playing a newer version online. JK proves the best concepts never die.
All the joystick controls have been programmed to work on the virtual arcade machines. There is a copy of this at the end of the video, compliments of Rik K. If you want to see how they built the barcade machine watch their tutorial video here.