I've been working on this, my first cabinet, for a couple of months now. But due to the birth of my daughter, things have slowed/stalled a bit. Still, I'm proud of where this project is headed and am excited to share the progress made with y'all.
Specs- Donor cabinet: 1994 Williams Universal 40008 (same cabinet as MK I and Total Carnage)
- Monitor: Wells-Gardner U2000 25"
- PC: HP xw4300 Tower, Pentium D Single-Core, 2 GB RAM, Win XP, PCIe Arcade VGA
- Controls: Quad player panel, 2 Ultrastik 360's, a Groovy TB-3" trackball, Turbotwist 2 spinner, 2 8-way sticks and 37 buttons (from twistedquarter). Each player will be themed to match a MOTU character (He-Man, Skeletor, Man-at-Arms, Evil-Lyn, probably)
- Theme: Masters of the Universe
- FE: Hyperspin
Imagine if you will, that the Masters of the Universe franchise had its own arcade game, circa 1983. It's really amazing that it didn't actually, when you think about it. There were games made for the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Commodore 64, Amstrad and a bunch of other home computers of the era, but nothing for the arcade. It's a shame.
So I'm designing this cabinet's artwork as if it was created in the early 80's - the game that was never made but should have been.
When done, the cabinet will include every MOTU video game made during the period of the original series (early-mid '80s):
- The Power of He-Man - Intellivision
- MOTU: The Arcade Game - C64 (an action-platformer AKA The Ilearth Stone)
- MOTU: The Super Adventure - C64 (a graphic adventure AKA Terraquake)
- MOTU: The Movie - C64
Here's a recent shot of the cabinet, just after we got the old transformer wired up to the monitor for the first time. Note that the marquee is a placeholder. The actual marquee design is still being created and will likely be some derivation of the MOTU logo.
And here's an idea of what the cabinet side-art will look like. He-Man will be on one side, Skeletor on the other. The final direction will end up being something like a combination of these two, I think:
Vector Lines Treatment
Grayskull Landscape Treatment
More designs and updates coming soon.