The Story:
I was at the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention in Arizona last year, and I decided I go for a scenic drive in the desert. I wasn’t paying attention to the GPS, and after a few hours I found myself with no signal. I tried to retrace my path, but I knew I was off-course. The road turned to gravel, and I found myself in an abandoned town that looked straight out of an old western. I got out to explore. Inside the old saloon, a tall cabinet sat in the corner – some sort of penny arcade machine. As luck would have it, I found a penny on the ground and dropped it in. “KINGCADE” lit up on the marquee, and magic began to happen….
“KINGCADE”
is my first game cabinet project. I typically make steampunk art, so I wanted to do sort of a steampunk/wild west theme. I’ll document the build in this thread. I’ve got 80% of the planning and purchasing done, so I’m on to the building.
Some of the features include:
- Raspberry Pi-based with native 240p output to a 21” CRT monitor
- Rotating monitor for vertical/horizontal games (probably manual rotation to start)
- Ultimarc 4/8-way joysticks
- Happ 2 ¼” trackball with vintage billiard ball
- iL buttons with Rollie Leaf switches from Paradise Arcade
- Joust-themed artwork (steampunk style)
- A scrolling Joust mechanical automaton scene (maybe playable in the future)
- Space to include my old Atari systems (800XL, 7800) in the cabinet
Here’s a vector drawing of the front of the cabinet (ignore the measurements; they're in feet). More pics to come as I get them resized for the forum.