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"Throwback" cabinets
compute:
When I was small, I dreamt of making an arcade-style cabinet for my Atari 2600. Since my medium of choice for the day was cardboard, I pictured that. I did once make a cardboard mockup of a soda machine, that was pretty cool. Anyway, with the resources we have today, has anybody thought of making a cab out of an old system/computer specifically to capture the feel they would have had? I'm not talking about emulators, I'm suggesting something like that NES cab that surfaced recently. Besides using an Xbox/PS3/etc, has anything like this come about recently?
Vigo:
Do you mean something like Tighe's Virtual Boy Arcade Machine?
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=112320.0
mgb:
I have been comtemplating something along those lines.
I'd like to do a simple Nintendo cabinet using an NES with the cart slot somewhere accessable for swapping games. I have also been thinking of a similar setup for an Atari 2600 machine with a 2 player layout, both with joystick, button and paddle. I think it would look cool in the wood grain with the cart slot in between the player controls.
I just wish I had the room for these machines (and I wish I would finish my current project)
Donkbaca:
It would be SWEET if someone made a BYO soda machine...
Generic Eric:
That is a neat cab. I never played a virtual boy, but that looks like a well executed concept. To answer you question in the original post, there have been several cabs based on those jakks pacific games that plug into the tv.