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Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
JDFan:
Seems to be pretty cheap pressed board with a few screws and wood dowels holding it together so will be hard to keep it from wobbling and falling apart. - If I were assembling I'd probably glue the thing together as well :dunno
For $300 shipped it's not too bad but they most likely are using a single custom PCB and who knows what emulation as well as cheap buttons/trackball/spinner so doubt they'll age well and will probably wind up being sold off cheap after they don't sell well in store like the last attempt at home arcade machine production by Big Electronic Games ( At least they are using a 17" lcd instead of the 14" one the last attempt used. )
smass:
I am going to bite on at least one - with the intention to raspberry pi mod it. I am sure that a pi hack cable will be available pronto.
They are also selling a stand for it to raise it to normal arcade height - but you could build your own for cheap of course. The price is just too good considering its ready to go with an art package and all. Full size flat back arcade kits with shipping are more expensive than this. And they require buttons, art, computer/pi.
I was actually considering building a few cabaret machines from scratch, but screw that for now. So I'm in for at least one to give it a try at modding it if nothing else...I like the centipede and asteroids for the spinner and track ball. But the street fighter one would probably best for a pi hack as you get two 8 way joysticks and 6 buttons per player....so I might go with that one for my mod experiment :)
opt2not:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on July 26, 2018, 02:52:55 pm ---Never seen one of those in real life. Oh wait, I have, at a repair party. Enh, says I, Enh!
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Last time I saw one in the wild was at the Disneyland arcade, near Magic Mountain. It might still be there, dunno, it's been a few years. They're really cute cabinets, but not very practical to play on. But I do agree with you, if you're going with a cabaret it shouldn't require a chair. The whole point of a cabaret is to reduce the square-footage footprint it takes up, having to use a chair defeats that purpose. Cabarets were mainly placed in Hotel lobbies, waiting rooms, diners etc. Places where people congregate, but are limited in space. I have my Robotron cabaret tucked snug into a corner in our 900 sqft apartment. It's takes very little room, and doesn't annoy the wife for being too big or too much of an eyesore.
smass:
Here is the stand that they will be selling - easy to make your own of course....
pbj:
Looks pretty sturdy in the assembly video to me. Looking forward to seeing some reviews....
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