four mini arcades multiplayer on four player game?

[ghostb]

I couldn't find any info on someone doing this, but is possible to set up four micro arcades to run one game at the same time wirelessly.  Like four little two button arcades each controlling a player in a four player game like the simpsons or tmnt? I think that'd make a fun project, but I'm not sure how to go about getting them linked together. figured with something like rpi's you could build four tiny arcades and maybe create a local server that hosted a game?

[JimmyU]

I think it would possible, but lag might be bad.

[Vigo]

Never used it, but I think the software to make Mame multiplayer over a network is called "Kaillera"

[ghostb]

I've used kaliera before and it was fine for beat 'em ups as far as lag went; but I wondered if there was something less complicated.  I'm picturing this for kids and people who wouldn't want to go through signing in and finding the other players to join.  It's probably be easy if I didn't want it to be wireless. I'll probably hold off on this until I figure something out.  Thanks for the input though.

[Cobolisdead]

Couldn't you just use 1 PC with the miniarcades just terminals connected to it? It wouldn't be the cleanest solution in the world, but it would be the easiest.

[Malenko]

4 thin clients connecting to a terminal server 

[ghostb]

4 thin clients connecting to a terminal server 

yes, that exactly.  have never worked with anything like that, but after googling it, thats what I'm talking about, thanks.