Thursday, February 14, 2013

Beercade replaces arcade coin slots with beer taps, rewards winners with brew

[![DNP Beercade The Last Barfighter replaces arcade coin slot with beer tap](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/beercade1.jpg) ](http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/14/beercade-the-last-barfighter/)

Forget prize tickets or high scores. The minds at McKinney creative agency may have come up with the greatest reward for [arcade](http://www.engadget.com/tag/arcade/) victors -- an ice cold pour of [beer](http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/18/arduino-kegerator-hack-checks-in-your-homebrews-on-untappd/). Created as a marketing tool for Big Boss Brewing Company, the aptly named _Beercade_ features _The Last Barfighter_, a _Street Fighter_-like [arcade](http://www.engadget.com/tag/arcade/)[ game](http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/06/atari-greatest-hits-app-lands-in-android-market-star-raiders-aw/) set inside a biker bar. To begin, two players place their cups in the tray below their respective tap, which replaces the machine's coin slots. Beer-thirsty combatants can do battle with a selection of five characters, all named after Big Boss brews. After three rounds of intense fisticuffs, fire throwing and unicorn horn impaling, the winner's cup is filled with a sample of beer from a keg placed within the machine. Don't believe us? You can click past the break for a video of the machine in action.

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**Source:** [McKinney](http://mckinney.com/news/mckinney-introduces-the-world-s-first-beer-dispensing-arcade-game)

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/14/beercade-the-last-barfighter/

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