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What hasn't yet been done on a cab?
lcmgadgets:
I've noticed over the years that I've been on this forum that if I can think of it, someone has done it. & the list of things I haven't dreamt of is at least as long. Lit-up t-moulding, automated rotating monitors, modular controls, rotating panels, wireless controls, LCD marquee's, controls that light up depending on what game is loaded, controls recessed in the cab that automatically slide out & mount when needed, etc...
What I'm wondering is, what's left that hasn't been done?
1 that I can think of, that I think would b pretty cool (but have decided against on my own cab (project IS proceeding, I promise, however glacially)) is the 'bubble tube' decoration found on the old Wurlitzer juke boxes:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=post;board=1.0#
HaRuMaN:
Make your side art be LCD screens... matched to the game currently selected >:D
UFO:
Lol! That would rock!
shponglefan:
Holograms?
yotsuya:
Well, I'm under the impression that just because you CAN do something doesn't mean that you SHOULD do it, especially if you can't pull it off right. Some things, like rotating monitors, have been perfected and I think are at a point where they look good and easy to implement. Other things, like light-up t-molding, have fallen by the wayside because it just doesn't work the way it's envisioned.
Then again, I'm a traditionalist. I'd take a boxy, well-painted, well-executed two-player black cab any day of the week (mainly because that's what I would have seen in an arcade back in the day). But that's me. There are some really nice out-of-the-box projects here, and others I just silently shake my head at. In the end, if the builder's happy, that's all that should matter.