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A Cabinet for a Dorm room.
LD1984:
--- Quote from: GadgetGeek on March 30, 2004, 08:26:31 pm ---Blow the budget and buy this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085992868&category=49230
(big discussion in http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=17592)
and then hook up webcam or x-10 ninja cam up to watch the other room's stripper pole on the embedded screen while playing arcade games.
Of course, if you are playing video games while watching naked chicks on the screen, then you will probably be limiting yourself to games you can play with 1 hand :-)
OK, to get the coolness factor, I think you need a full size cabinet, but will all the components in the top half and the bottom half would be where the keg and tapper go (tapper on the side of course, so as not to interfere with game play). Whole thing on wheels so it can be wheeled across the hall to watch the stippers while drinking and playing classic games.
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You're insane.
I think my hopes might be too big. My dream is to have four CP's so that I can beat The Simpsons arcade game with my friends. How could I ever make it happen? ???
Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Alls I know is that I have a dream....
SkateDetroit:
Wireless control panels, or not doesn't matter. Four of them even. You could wire them to a playstation controller and then use a PS2-PC adapter. Grab a PS2-XBOX adapter while you're at it. Now you've got arcade quality joysticks for your PC and MAME, PS2, and XBOX. Add 50 Inch tv and your set.
You'll still be able to trick girls into thinking you're not that big of a nerd while having the best old school game partys.
Last step is to add large comfy couch. Voila. Instant dorm room bliss.
GadgetGeek:
--- Quote from: LD1984 on March 31, 2004, 12:41:00 am ---
You're insane.
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I prefer the term reality impaired :)
OK, back to reality. If you are building it yourself from scratch, go with something scaled down maybe 3/4 size (since dorm space is at a premium). Then put the basic 2 person fighter arrangement on the CP. In order to accomodate the two extra people for 4 person games, build two single player units (with connectors for easy attachment...plenty of threads discussing options there) that can be attached as wings to the main unit when necessary. If a TB is needed for goldentee (or TW Golf, pc version) or centipede or whatever, a standalone unit that attached to the front should solve that problem (or maybe a flip up unit). By using this approach, it will still look like an arcade cabinet (with out the wings) and fit easily through doors for moving it back and forth.
My opinion is that you would have the better deal. I would bet the room with the stripper pole will just be some drunk guys staring at it saying "gee, it would sure be great if we could actually gets some girls to dance with this pole".
Good luck
nipsmg:
Sorry to burst your bubble-- but NO WAY an arcade machine beats a stripper pole..
Ok, during the day... you'll have the coolness factor, but your buddies across the hall will be the envy of campus when they've got drunk naked college chicks swinging from their stripper poles at night... while you're pounding buttons playing mortal kombat..
But.. If you were going to go with a machine in a dorm room.... Make it a cocktail if possible, or a cabaret cabinet.. The cocktail could be used for storing stuff when it's not being used.. Dorm rooms, no matter how big, usually can't fit a cabinet comfortably.. I had a HUGE dorm room at school, and there's no way it'd fit with both beds, desks, etc (Unless you've got a living room/common area type of setup to a couple of rooms, then throw that pig in the living room).
I say, only thing better than one stripper pole, is two stipper poles. or a stripper pole & lighting system.. :-D
--NipsMG
Stingray:
--- Quote from: LD1984 on March 31, 2004, 12:41:00 am ---[I think my hopes might be too big. My dream is to have four CP's so that I can beat The Simpsons arcade game with my friends. How could I ever make it happen? ???
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Most four player cabs I've seen would take up all of the available space in the dorm rooms I've been in. Your best bet is to build a two player cab with USB ports on the front. Players 3 & 4 can make do with game pads when you play four player games.
-S