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Ginsu Victim:
Best advice is to listen to what javeryh said.
DashRendar:

--- Quote from: javeryh on February 06, 2010, 08:55:17 am ---Don't take this the wrong way but I'd rethink the entire thing.  I can't think of anything I like less than the generic MAME logo or character clip art and you are using both!  IMO, the best cabinets are the ones that have their own unique name/theme.  Instead of looking slapped together they look like "real" cabinets.  Check out Mission Control, ARTIFACT, deep 6 or the Street Fighter Arcade to name a few and you will see what I mean.   :cheers:

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+2
shateredsoul:
Definitely good advice, but what if my goal is not to make it look like a real arcade? I agree with the suggestion about removing the mame logo, but I can't think of a better name... I really don't want to use something like "super arcade" or "the back in time machine" dunno.. I would like a spot wher I could have something like this (lots of characters that I link to my experiences with gaming).  Maybe I can do that on the side art or the control panel?
shateredsoul:
Oh and by the by, I don't want it to look like it has one game ... since it has more than one game on it. So I wouldn't want to sue reprints of older marquees.  Hmm maybe street fighter II but other than that I'm not sure.

I think the only arcade I have seen that was not made with reprinted art and had a good theme was the space invader one that delusional had in one of his video.. and I like the clip art  :P , Maybe if I fill up the background and make it extra cluttered with no black space, then put mame on top of all the characters.

hmm

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: javeryh on February 06, 2010, 08:55:17 am ---Don't take this the wrong way but I'd rethink the entire thing.  I can't think of anything I like less than the generic MAME logo or character clip art and you are using both!  IMO, the best cabinets are the ones that have their own unique name/theme.  Instead of looking slapped together they look like "real" cabinets.  Check out Mission Control, ARTIFACT, deep 6 or the Street Fighter Arcade to name a few and you will see what I mean.   :cheers:

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+3


--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 06, 2010, 01:44:21 pm ---Definitely good advice, but what if my goal is not to make it look like a real arcade? I agree with the suggestion about removing the mame logo, but I can't think of a better name... I really don't want to use something like "super arcade" or "the back in time machine" dunno.. I would like a spot wher I could have something like this (lots of characters that I link to my experiences with gaming).  Maybe I can do that on the side art or the control panel?

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That's kind of the point we're making. Every one of those Marquee examples by javeryh follow the K.I.S.S. principle down to T.
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