Main > Main Forum

Brainstorm on cool additions to an arcade machine

Pages: << < (6/6)

NoBonus:


--- Quote from: drewkaree on May 15, 2004, 08:48:35 pm ---It's still in the works, no prototype yet, so it won't be available for cab use for a while.  We need "NOW" technology, man!  Cap'n, I'm givin' 'er all I've got!!

And for those of you wondering, --> HERE <-- is the Jager dispenser....kinda pricey, but if you're a Jager fan, well worth the price  ;D

Another suggestion....how about the hot rollers used for hot dogs at your local (fill in convenience store name)

--- End quote ---


You should get the beer dispenser setup on that link instead of the Jager dispenser.  The one with the sankey couple will work with commercial kegs and the other setup will work with home-brew kegs (consequentally, you can get the home brew attachments at your local homebrew shop much cheaper than the sankey coupler).  You could always get a 5-gallon homebrew keg, fill it with 5 gallons of Jager, and be drunk forever.  But be careful not to carbonate your Jager in the keg... I did that once with iced tea.  It might be okay with Kool-AId or even Jager, but carbonated iced tea sucks!  A carbonated sweet wine might be good too... you can make wine from practically nothing and it will last for ever and does not need to be refridgerated.  Just an idea....

If you are worried about the fridge being inside of your cab (which could be a valid concern as fridges do leak on occasion and create heat), you could alway run an insulated line from a nearby (next to the cab or on the other side of the wall)  frige with keg into your cab...  of course, if you are going to do that, why run the beer through your cab at all...

NoBonus

eb:

A clear ring around each button/joystick/etc so the controls that are used in each game light up via an LED under the panel, when that game is loaded. The function of each button is then displayed on screen on an OSD (A few projects are running at the moment that seem to be doing the legwork for this :).

A TV tuner. Then, some sort of mechanism to sit the monitor up straight (probably will have to pull back the top of a full sized cabinet to achieve this), along with the idea about surround sound, so the whole thing unfolds like some huge freaking entertainment system transformer. Now that'd be cool :)

For pinball sims: a motion detector for bumping... so the machine physically does tilt when you hit it too much. Of course this means the thing should have a pinball trigger too :)

For the stupidly rich, a high res colour lcd screen at the top of your cab that scrolls to the appropriate marquee of the game you are currently playing.

I had thought of putting a bar fridge in, but the dispenser idea is tops!

Kremmit:

Add a cigarette lighter.


JAZ:

Aluminium kick plate on the bottom of the cabinet. Handy when you are about to set your highest score ever on Elevator Action (in 21 years of playing) when the PC decides to reboot because of a faulty power supply.

Pages: << < (6/6)

Go to full version