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Blinkey:

New guy here (long time lurker), full of admiration for you guys and the projects on here.

I am thinking of starting a mame project, which would be a compromise between my full cabinet ambitions and something "wife-friendly" which will fit inside a 20-inch deep cupboard in our spare room.

I love the depth and the more horizontal screen position of the classic midway pac/galaga style cabs. Bartop designs often seem a bit too cramped and upright for my liking.

I thought of designing something deeper than a bartop, but without the full height of a cab, that can still go on a low shelf or on the wall. Like a slimmer pac man cab with LCD screen, cut short just below the cp.  Are there any examples of this sort of hybrid being done ? Any problems you can envisage ?  I would appreciate your expertise.

GregD:

Not sure what exactly you are describing.  Is it going to be free standing?  What would the size of the monitor be?  Would it be vertical or horizontal?

paigeoliver:

Think about a cocktail. Women seem to think of them as not taking up much room, even though they eat like 3 times the space of an upright. You aren't going to be happy with something hiding in the cupboard.

And why exactly do you have to hide your machine in the cupboard anyway.

Blinkey:

Think of the cupboard more as an 'alcove' in the room with doors. It houses some shelves with books and junk. It's quite wide - wide enough for a cab to go in and still see the side decal. But not deep enough for a full size cab.

The idea is : a few low, deep shelves for the books etc. then the cab placed on on the top of the shelves. A bartop would be ideal, but my idea is for a bigger, deeper bartop where the screen can "lay back" at more of an angle away from the controls. Picture just the top half of a PAC man cab. Probably a 19" screen, probably vertical for real old school games.

kahlid74:

There's a bunch of slim designs people have used in the projects section but I would still be weary of the weight.  MDF even with a slim design is still going to weigh a bit and if you're planning to put it on a shelf that concerns me.  I like the cocktail idea and if you check the project section one guy is building a coffee table cocktail cab that hides in the coffee table.

So are you wanting to build a regular width, bartop height, slim depth cabinet or am I missing something?

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