Help me rename my cabinet...i'm out of ideas.

[severdhed]

I'm about half way done with my 4 player pedestal cabinet, so naturally i'm thinking ahead to my next project My wife assured me that i will not be bringing any more cabinets into this house, so i have to make due with the two that i have.  Right now, my upright cabinet is set up for 2 players, but once my 4player pedestal is done, it is going to be converted back to a vertical classics cabinet.  This was my first cabinet, many have come and gone over the years, but i will not get rid of this one.  I got this cabinet before having children, but when my first son came along, i wanted to name it after him (Zakary), so after some thinking, i came up with Zak-Man and made a pac-man style marquee for the cabinet.  This was great, my wife and I really liked it.  However 6 years have gone by since Zak came into our lives, and by the end of this month, i'll have 4 children...but Zak is the only one with a cabinet named after him.  This has not caused any issues yet, but I am afraid that  it could down the road.  My plan is to make 3 more marquees for my zakman cabinet that i can swap out periodically...each one named after one of my children. This is where i need help.  Zakary is already taken care of, and my 2 year old daughter Kira somehow ended up with the nickname of "Kirbert" (i'm not sure how that happened, it just did), so i'm picturing a modified Q-Bert theme for hers. However i cannot seem to come up with anything that works for my 4 year old son, Xander, or my soon to be born son Caleb.   Please help!!!

[paigeoliver]

Circus Caleb (Circus Charlie)
Xanderzon (Zaxxon)

[Monkeyvoodoo]

Caleb castles  (crystal castle)
Xanderious  (Xevious)

[Haze]

Calebipede (if you have a trackball)
Zzyzzyxxander

[HanoiBoi]

Not exactly arcade machine name related, but here are some ideas :

Xan Tech

Mr. Xanderson (Matrix theme)

Caleb's Quest

And (name) for all

In (name) we trust

(name)'s Lair (Dragon's Lair theme)

My brother got a whole arcade cabinet and all I got was this stinkin' marquee

And when they fight about which marquee should be on the machine, you could have one marquee to rule them all:

Four Score and Many Years Ago (displaying the 4 marquees as a compilation)

[PL1]

Use your family name or a generic name in the title.

No arguments about how long one marquee is installed vs another.

No more worries about marquees/names, even if you have more kids.   


Scott

[danny_galaga]

If your name happens to be Dave, you must rename it HAL.

[ark_ader]

Moneypit

[Malenko]

name the 4 player cab "KidKade" or something, and label each start button after one of the kids.

[lilshawn]

"4 play"   

[JDFan]

Use a single theme (perhaps based on Family name) for the art portion of the marquee and have a digital photo frame incorporated in the center of the art that has the various name themes and can either be on auto rotate through the names or manually selected each time a different kid is playing. (and as the kids get older let them design their own Name displays)

[keilmillerjr]

Name the cabinet after your families last name. Everyone is happy. 

[severdhed]

i thought about trying to use our last name, but i don't want to get rid of ZakMan. (plus i already started working on the kirbert artwork)  i did think about doing a multi game marquee with all four on it, but was just struggling for games for two of them.  thanks for the suggestions...keep em coming!

[Malenko]

re-read the first post.....

Since you have a Pacman and a Qbert, you gotta stick with the Classics without getting too obscure.

Caleb Kong (Donkey Kong)

Can you name Xander something else, or use his middle name? lol  Maybe just spoof the Xevious maqruee and spell out his name? Good luck.

[JDFan]

i thought about trying to use our last name, but i don't want to get rid of ZakMan. (plus i already started working on the kirbert artwork)  i did think about doing a multi game marquee with all four on it, but was just struggling for games for two of them.  thanks for the suggestions...keep em coming!

Could combine the final 2 and do a "Mario Bros" theme with "Family Name Bros" and replacing Mario and Luigi with Zander and Caleb characters

[Vigo]

i thought about trying to use our last name, but i don't want to get rid of ZakMan. (plus i already started working on the kirbert artwork)  i did think about doing a multi game marquee with all four on it, but was just struggling for games for two of them.  thanks for the suggestions...keep em coming!

Not trying to sound like a curmudgeon here, but why do you necessarily need a cabinet named after all your children? Who said that you have to be fair about it? Let Zak be the only one for now. If any of your other kids ever complain, then you tell them that it they can build one with you as a father/son(or daughter) project. Then you can build a bartop or mini cab with them and let them name it. It will be a bonding experience and a cool thing to do with your kids, so I assume your wife would not object another small arcade machine project in another 10 years.

Oh, and congrats on your 4th!

[severdhed]

Well, i would really like to be as fair as possible.  Xander has never complained about it to me, but i can see the disappointment in his eyes when someone makes a comment about the zakman cabinet.  I don't want to get rid of the zakman stuff, because Zakary really likes it...that is why i want to do this. 

i'd like to stick with the classics as much as possible, i may have to be a bit more abstract than i'd like though to get it to work. 

[Tonynlo]

I'm a big fan of Ironman.  I wanted to name my cabinet after the computer used to control Tony Stark's world.  Funds held me up a bit since I decided that I should get married for some reason and now I'm dumping my arcade money into a wedding 

  I would love to see this come together!

 My plan was to name the cabinet.  J.A.R.V.I.S.  There is voice activated software available that would respond to a command of "Jarvis, lets play a game" and Jarvis would say "Right away sir" and my frontend will open etc. 

  My CP artwork would be similar to the image below.



I would place my blue illuminated trackball right in the middle of Ironman's chest where the Arc Reactor is. 

Nerds unite!

[dgame]

Xander:


Caleb: