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leapinlew:
She may just need to be persuaded


Another option is to go out to the strip joints and casinos and see how much you spend in a weekend. Then tell her that your going to give up the party life and stay home, but you'll need an arcade cabinet.

SavannahLion:
At some point in the process, you will get grief from the spouse. It won't matter as to the why or how much she approves of it, it's inevitable. How you handle it is up to you. When it happens to me, whatever caused the grief disappears into the corner of the garage or the shed. With her, out of sight out of mind is the trick.

I usually get the grief at the project onset. Eventually she calls enough to allow me to continue.

I'll another sentiment, if you have a baby, delay working on the project until the baby is asleep. Babies are stinky little bombs waiting to happen but they're cool little bombs. I have an 18 month old and a three year old, so my projects have been sluggish for a long time. I just introduced my oldest to Sunshine and he's catching on fast. Unfortunately he is too hooked so there's some throttling going on now.

flashiv:

--- Quote from: Capt.Dreamer on February 25, 2011, 12:23:43 pm ---
Then came the budget... I consider myself pretty good with money and frugal to boot, but having a 7 month old and both parents working was a reallllllllly hard sell to the missus. HOWEVER! I did get her interested when we came to the agreement that A) I would only spend a fixed number of money per month and B) She could design the cabinet (She's a huge comic book fan). We even came to the decision that it would be a Arkham Asylum (Batman being her favorite comic) design.

Now, its been 2 weeks and I'm getting antsy to get started, but we have neither an idea nor a design on what she wants. Since she's not overly interested in the actual cabinet, I have a feeling that this might take a while.

So, my question here is for all you married men out there that have completed cabs, what did you do? How did you do it? and how much grief did you have to put up with after.  :lol

--- End quote ---

Capt D., I also went the same way with the money,  a little each month.  In the meantime I also set up MAME on a PC to show the (ex) wife how cool it was.

A thought on the design... what about having the cab side artwork look like a cell in Arkham complete with the Joker on one side and the Riddler on the other?

Also show her these two games in MAME (if you already haven't).

Batman Forever
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7028
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/batmanfr

Batman
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7027
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/batman

They've worked in MAME since .074 and .036 respectively.  I have no idea if the games themself are fun, but it might help get her more interested.

Thenasty:
I just went ahead and built my MAME CAB without the other knowing it HEHEHE  ;D

Capt.Dreamer:
@Donkbaca - Great suggestions. I never thought of building the CP first. I figured that I would need the cab finished first.

@flashiv- Good idea on the side art! I'll see what she thinks.

Some great suggestions here and some interesting ones. Some of you I wonder how you stay married.  >:D

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