You’ve got to hand it to the retro gaming concept–while over at Newgrounds, I dug up this clever little tribute / marketing ploy for the recently released Watchmen.  It’s called Watchmen: Minutemen Arcade.

The really interesting part about this title is that you play it like an actual video game in a diner, released by Veidt Industries.  The game itself is basically a Final Fight-style sidescrolling fighter, where you get to play as either the original Nite Owl or the original Silk Spectre.  You roam the streets of New York pounding a whole bunch of similarly-dressed thugs and eventually working your way up to a none too difficult fight with Moloch himself.

As a game, it’s not much.  But as a concept, it’s kind of nifty.  It’s the kind of thing that could be fairly easily included as a DVD-ROM option, or maybe even as a straight DVD option.  Considering you only have maybe seven buttons to work–punch, kick, jump and move in four directions–a DVD remote could probably handle it.  Anyway, give it a try–the price is right, and it’s a sufficiently nifty concept to entertain for at least a few minutes.