When was the last time you played an arcade game?

[darkknightkryta]

Slimebeast said:

Rafie said:

A few months back, I came across a page on Facebook that specializes in building custom arcade cabinets. I mean anything from Hulk, Addams Family, Super Mario, Star Wars, etc. They will build it for you. It looks PHENOMENAL!!! The name of the page is "Arcades R Fun". I'm not sure if I can post their link here as it may be under solicitation or something. Just check their page out. They do great work. It's almost 4 grand for the specific one that I want. There are cheaper ones. It goes by the size of the monitor you want I believe. 

 

Oh and yes I wasn't exaggeratting about how many games it comes with. It's 30,000!

Those cabinets in that homepage were really big and genuine looking. I love cabinets so much.

But 30,000 games. That must be pracitcally all games available on MAME. I hope they'll work, installed on that cabinet.

Almost 4,000 Dollars is sadly out of my price range lol

If you want a shortcut, build your own pedestal.  Then plug it into your PC.  Or buy a small HTPC PC, kinda like the one Disolitude put in his Dreamcast case.  The wood should cost you around 20 bucks, the buttons for two players should run you 80, a cheap PC encoder should cost you around 15-30 each.  Paint and primer will run you another 30.  You're looking at maybe 150 tops for the actual pedestal.You don't even need much wood working skills cause Home Depot will cut most of the wood for you.

I personally built something similar to this: