Photos: Your very own video arcade in a single cabinet

Long, long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, the spot for playing electronic games was a dark area in your local shopping mall called an arcade. The glory of posting your initials next to a highest score came at the expensive of a small fortune in quarters.

Now that you're all grown up (sort of), you can relive your arcade glory at home with a new machine from DreamAuthentics.

The company granted us permission to exhibit some of its latest standalone and tabletop devices. It's time to save the world again.

From the maker's site: "Our goal with the product line was to create a universal game platform" for the home--one that can play more than 200 arcade games from the 1980s to the present, using "authentic arcade joysticks, trackballs, spinners, arcade monitors, and flight sticks."

Here's an image of the Katana model, a one-player tabletop console.

(CNET Networks' TechRepublic runs some great photo galleries on retro technology. CNET News.com is publishing this excerpt.)

Caption text by TechRepublic's Mark Kaelin and News.com's Emily Shurr.