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Mini Mortal Kombat - 20th Anniversary (Finished with video)
Mungo9000:
Right, I'm quite far into this build and I'm ready to share some of the photos.
This is my second project, following on from a Mini Pac-Man from which I learned a lot of skills and tricks.
I'm building this around a great plug-and-play version of the game, combined with a miniature 3.5 inch screen and the ubiquitous portable mp3 player speakers.
The screen is amazing. It is a reversing assist screen to help busses and long vehicles back-up in conjunction with a video camera. I got it from a site called SecurityCamera2000 which is based in Hong Kong for about £25 new.
I bought the game second hand from Amazon for £12 and the speakers were £3. So about £40 for the guts of the machine.
Mungo9000:
I'm going to create a custom machine celebrating the fact that Mortal Kombat is 20 years old this year.
I have a real affinity for this game for a special reason.
Jump back to when the game was new, I was a trainee hotel manager and stuck in a night room-service department for a month. One night I get a call for club sandwiches and cokes at 3am, but when I get to the room THIS GUY answers the door wearing THIS COSTUME!
Divizio and partner were in London to appear on a TV show called Games Master and were trying out their costumes. His companion that night was Raiden, also in full costume.
At least, they told me they were going on TV but personally I like to think that Kano and Raiden are actually real guys who really dress like that and hang out in London hotels.
Anyway...........
Mungo9000:
Step 1 - Paper Engineering
This is always my favorite part. Here's the slowly evolving idea in a few iterations.
Too much overhang on the marquee and too blocky. Lets try again...
Mungo9000:
Step 2 - Get busy cutting and gluing bits of wood together
Mungo9000:
By this point I had already decided that the cabinet was going to incorporate the black and chrome bezel of the screen. I had originally planned to remove it from its housing, but it was so nice and unadorned that I decided to use it as is. So the screen ended up influencing the design of the cabinet. Not only that, but as it had such a nice chrome edge, I figured the character Sub-Zero, with lots of blues and chrome would be ideal.
You can see that with this build I'm going for an illuminated marquee.
Lets put the screen in and try it with a sample graphic.
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