When was the last time you played an arcade game?

[Slimebeast]

darkknightkryta said:

Slimebeast said:

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: 

lol a ghetto cabinet. That's much more in my price range.

Looks comfortable and usable, but it doesn't really give the authentic atmosphere and feeling of being back in time.