As a person who grew up in the 80's, visiting my local arcade was something akin to a religious experience. Back then if we wanted to play the latest game we would need to cash our paper-route money in for rolls of quarters and head to the Arcade Emporium. Instead of waiting in line for a midnight title release, we had to wait in line to get our shot to drop a quarter and have at titles like Operation Wolf or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
We spent a lot of time being surrounded by the sounds and sights of electronic gaming bliss during the weekends. So it’s no surprise that I may have shed a geeky tear after watching the above video, in which a geek going by the moniker “Le Chuck” combines two legendary things from those days: Star Wars and arcade gaming. You’re going to love this video of Le Chuck’s 12-inch replica of the game cabinets that mercilessly gulped our quarters for so many years.
To create this marvelous machine, Le Chuck spent over 80-hours meticulously hand-crafting the cabinet out of aluminum to look exactly like the original unit. Even more impressive is the internals of the Star Wars Micro, as Le Chuck took and modified a Caanoo handheld homebrew console to serve as the screen for the device. If you’re unfamiliar with the Caanoo, you can watch a video on it below.
