Arcade Lounge

Some of you may have seen this, or even had a play on it last year at Replay in Blackpool. Well, it’s now officially released!

Based around the 60-in-1 arcade board, this baby is our entry-level system in our arcade table range. It is equally as well designed, built and finished as our other arcade tables but uses a dedicated arcade PCB rather than a PC system. So you just plug it in, turn it on and you’re away. Available in Walnut only.

Take a look at the specs and games list on our website and view more photos.

The new surface tension Dual arcade table. Available to buy now for £1999, including shipping within England. Get in contact for other areas.

Our arcade button coasters are now available to buy on the surface tension website.

Based on the American-style arcade buttons, these melamine-topped, felt-backed coasters will stay looking in great condition for a long time to come. Produced in the UK, we’ve sourced the country’s leading manufacturer to offer up a top-quality product. Complete with attractive retail packaging.

Available in 2 flavours; 4colour and 4player.

Available now from surface tension. Starting from £9.99 incl shipping in the UK to £12.99 for shipping anywhere else in the world.

These pixelated playing cards are inspired by Space Invaders, bringing you some nostalgia from your childhood in card form. From the bringer of the Optimus Maximus Keyboard, Art Lebedev.

Made in Russia and costing 8 Euros ($12)

Space Invader playing cards

Coca-Cola’s famous can design just got pixelated and Space Invaded in a series of mockups by designer Erin McGuire. McGuire says her cans are a tribute to both Space Invaders and Space Invader (the Paris-based street artist).

It’s too bad these designs didn’t hit a few years earlier. The 30th anniversary of Space Invaders, back in 2008, would have been a perfect opportunity to convince Coke to make these awesome can designs real.

Check out the Diet and Zero versions on the Erin McGuire link above.

This sleek, cool coffee table is a great way to recycle redundant computer parts. It’s made from old motherboards placed on top of a traditional table design with transparent plastic on top.

Created by Chris Harrison, this table would be the talking point in any home and certainly is a innovative use of redundant equipment.

However, this is a one-off design and it’s home in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute over in Pittsburgh, USA.

This can only make you the envy of your mates when you wheel your gas BBQ out. After being accused of cheating for using gas that is. But once the shouts have died down and they see what’s fuelling your meat-heater, they’ll soon want their raw goods on your grill.

1. Take one stubby propane tank and some paint.

2. Paint.

3. Win.

See the Instructables guide for more info. Thanks Idedvovo, this is going straight to the top of my to-do list in the not-too-important section.

Many places like offices, schools and trains have an option for what to do when disasters like fires, earthquakes and tornadoes happen, but what do you do if there is an 8-bit emergency?  Never in your wildest dreams did you think that the Duck Hunt ducks would invade your home and try to kill you but you should be prepared in case they do!

Should an 8 bit emergency like this happen, just beak the glass and you’ll have access to a NES zapper with which to defend yourself and your loved ones!

Unfortunately this awesome emergency case isn’t available to improve the health & safety of your environment, rest assured if it was we would have one here in the surface tension office. This is a one off piece of art by etsy seller straitwurly and not surprisingly was sold almost as soon as it went on sale.

When was the last time you saw a clock gone so block? Probably in a ’80s computer game – this clock, made by the pixel people at Mustard, is so retro it makes your eyes water, but it does tell perfect time all the time; even if it does have its roots in the pixelated past.

8-bit style with pixellated corners and everything, yet still remaining deliciously analog. Little stubby minute and hour hands mark the passage of time, even if Magic Castles makes you think time has stopped.

Available from Play.com for £17.99

Waka waka waka! PAC-MAN, is headed to reality TV. Merv Griffin Entertainment has teamed up with Namco Bandai Games, to develop an unscripted series based on the hugely popular video game. This marks the first major foray into TV for PAC-MAN whose only previous TV presence was a short-lived animated series in the early 1980s. The project also coincides with the 30th anniversary of the best-selling game and 1980s pop culture icon.

The PAC-MAN reality series is envisioned as a “big, crazy Wipeout-type event with a lot of energy,” said Merv Griffin’s president of TV Roy Bank. “The idea we have is to take what PAC-MAN is and bring it to life, to bring what is essentially the world’s biggest game of tag to television.” The project is now being taken out to the broadcast networks in America. I have tried to search for some updates but can’t find anything at the moment, rest assured I shall have my finger on the button and as soon as something is announced I will let you guys know.

Via: BuddyTV

Who can say they did not enjoy setting up and toppling dominoes as a child? Captured in a kind of slow-motion sequence, that same sensation is beautifully converted from a toy concept into this clever contemporary coffee table.

While it might look simple, this modernist exercise in “physics and play” takes a single craftsman an impressive six weeks to construct by hand, as each attachment, angle and position must of course be carefully accounted for – not so simple as our childhood playthings after all.

While it is also available with a solid wooden top surface, it would seem silly to put so much craftsmanship into something and not be able to see its most striking feature from every angle – thus the glass top with wood trim seems to serve the design best.

Available by licensing order only from SIDD price on application.