Pulling and paraphrasing from a control panel question I posted elsewhere, this project is titled Dan's Misspent Youth Arcade, or the short version M.Y. Arcade. Being a teenager in the late 70s, and living in a small rural town I had a limited selection of game exposure being mostly at the mercy of the small arcade in the bowling alley, and I am planning this cabinet to play those games I most fondly remember stuffing quarters into. Far and away the two biggest eaters of my meager money supply were Asteroids and Space Invaders. Just those 2 brought me to my first dilemma, vertical or horizontal
After those came Space Zap, Missile Command, Defender, Frogger, Galaxian, Centipede, Zaxxon, Pacman and Donkey Kong. So again a mix of vertical and horizontal. Of course it will likely run a bunch more mame games, but getting those on will be my goal.
In the end I decided to go with just 4-way joystick (Zippy from GGG, so could do 8-way if I wanted), buttons in a mostly Asteroids with Space Zap arrangement, and a U-Trak. Oh, and to solve the orientation dilemma I decided to build it with a manually rotate-able monitor that simply pulls out the front to move.
Here is an overview shot from Sketchup of M.Y. Arcade
Here is a shot of the control panel.
Attached is the sketchup file that is pretty close to how I built it.