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honkey:

Right when I thought I had finally decided exactly how I was going to build my cabinet, I am now having second thoughts. I had thought I would build a cocktail cabinet with a 19" CRT monitor. Then, yesterday a friend jokingly said "I will be impressed when you have guns and we are playing Terminator 2." I told him how I was eventually going to just buy guns and run shooters through a Mac mini on my TV. Now I am starting to second guess myself and I am wondering if I should just get a 26 or 27" CRT TV on Craigslist and build an upright cabinet with four players and hang guns on the side. That way, the vertical games could still be viewed close to their 19" size and all the horizontal games would be huge. But then I have the question, is it really worth it? Do the horizontal games still look good when they are that big? I do not know if I want to be talked into or out of the idea of an upright. Any suggestions?

Donkbaca:

Do you have a wife or girlfriend?  Chances are they will hate the enormous 4 player monstrosity you are contemplating


honkey:


--- Quote from: Donkbaca on September 29, 2011, 12:36:01 pm ---Do you have a wife or girlfriend?  Chances are they will hate the enormous 4 player monstrosity you are contemplating


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Ha, fiancee. I took her to an arcade warehouse and she agreed how cool it would be to have one in my apartment. I think at this point she just wants me to build something so we can play and she won't have to listen to me going back and forth on how to build it. Space isn't too much of an issue since I have 850 sq. ft. and not much furniture.

BobA:

Cocktails actually take up more floor space than an upright cab due to the seating requirements.   Shooters would be nice.  ;D

honkey:

My big concern is that I want to make sure that if I shell out the extra dough for this that it will actually be worth it. My biggest question about it is: Do 26" CRT televisions provide a quality close to what you find in an arcade. I am not going to be buying an arcade monitor anytime soon. I want a 4:3 monitor. I want vertical games to have close to 19" display space and I am concerned about how horizontal games will look on a screen that large. And of course, I will have to look up cabinet plans again.

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