A Reddit user found something relatively strange in his dentist’s waiting room: an old McDonald’s N64 video game kiosk that had been converted into an Xbox 360 arcade, complete with multiple controllers and games.

The waiting room on the dentist’s office may be a tense place as you wait for the procedure that brought you there to start. Even a easy cleansing or inspection may cause a lot of stress, especially for younger children who could have had several bad experiences with dental cleansing devices. So as a substitute of playing games on their phone and draining the battery or forcing them to read five months’ price of random fashion magazines, why not allow them to play on their Xbox 360 to distract them from their upcoming root canal? At least one dentist seems to think that is a pretty good idea.

April 16 Reddit user Asleep-Tumbleweed-99 posted some photos on the Xbox 360 subreddit at an Xbox 360 kiosk hanging out in his dentist’s waiting room.

“Pretty cool. () is what I see on one of them, and on the other it’s just the scoreboard up,” Asleep-Tumbleweed-99 explained. “It was a little kids game at the dentist, so I didn’t want to play it , because I’m almost 30 and I don’t want to look crazy, LOL.

Even though they didn’t play it, the user “needed to post” about the discovery, adding: “You don’t see this fairly often anymore, especially on the old Xbox 360.”

Others quickly joined in, declaring that the kiosk in the office looked very similar N64 machines found in some McDonald’s restaurants back in the late Nineties and early 2000s. However, if we dig a little deeper, it isn’t just an old N64 kiosk holding a few Xbox 360 consoles.

The true story of the dental kiosk for Xbox 360

At first I thought someone had taken the old kiosk and cleaned it up, removed the McDonald’s logo from the tall pole sticking out of the top, repainted the red dome silver, and pulled out the old screens and consoles. These were then replaced by three devices from the company’s name KidzPacewhich sells stand-alone video game consoles designed for restaurants, businesses, hospitals, hotels and virtually anywhere bored children might wait.

However, digging deeper, I discovered that this device was not a refurbished 1990s kiosk, but a product that KidzPace was selling. The representative told me they no longer offer the Xbox 360 model. But I found a 2017 YouTube video Posted by the company presenting it.

Looking closely, it’s likely that the corporate reused shell remnants from old N64 kiosks, because – after doing a little further research – I discovered that KidzPace made these old McDonald’s machines that day too. Actually they keep making games for the fast food giant to this present day.

If you might be curious, by purchasing only one standalone Xbox Series S playback unit from KidzPace in 2024 will cost $3,395, which does not include shipping, a representative told me. Yes!

Anyway, so uh, what were we talking about again?

Oh yeah, that weird old Xbox 360 kiosk at the dentist’s office that someone posted on Reddit. Yes, this is real. This was something you could buy and probably wasn’t made from a real old McDonald’s N64 kiosk. But it probably shares some DNA with these nostalgic devices, and maybe some plastic too.

I’ll stop digging into this before I find some new information that leads me down another rabbit hole.

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