giant cocktails

[paigeoliver]

I will need a bezel as my glass is not tinted, and it is CURVED, so it is not like I can just get a tinted one.

[Tailgunner]

Well you know what I'd suggest for a bezel.

It'd likely be possible to either tint the glass with limo tint or replace it with tinted lexan. The glass might need polishing before hand as I'd assume it's scratched somewhat from use. Lexan should have enough flex to conform to the curve, though you might need to modify the holddown strips to take the extra strain.

[paigeoliver]

The glass hardly has a scratch on it. Because it is curved it probably didn't get a lot of drinks set on it, and the general style of gameplay and the fact that you don't use chairs would have minimized setting things on the glass.

[Jakobud]

Paige, take a look at this other type of dunk shot cocktail style



Interesting.  Wonder if this is a remake of the model you have?

[paigeoliver]

Similar.

But basically I have a dedicated Atari Dunk Shot and that is a dedicated Sega one.

Mine had similar side marquees, but I took them off because it made the thing too wide to go in doors.

[Edgedamage]

Just saw this one on ebay.

[Lilwolf]

I personally think that ebay cocktail is one of the ugliest beasts I've seen.

scrap the side art.  Make something smaller and less...well... evil kneval time period.

[paigeoliver]

The arcade legends one is just scary looking, and what is the joystick for, I don't see a joystick game listed other than Battlezone, which needs two of them.

I will be placing my mouse buttons/etc on the sides of the control panels. Each side will get a 3 button bank, which will be Start, coin, and a third one just in case. The player one side has all the mouse buttons, works well.

[paigeoliver]

I now have the main panel fully wired. Keywhiz maX is the encoder. It is mounted to a board, which is mounted to the panel. Stuff on this panel is wired directly to it, then there will be a molex plug which leads off to the stuff on the rest of the machine. I wanted the panel removable, but I wanted to minimize the use of molex plugs because it takes forever to assemble them, and they can be a point of failure.

[paigeoliver]

Laser games look good on a large screen.

[paigeoliver]

Overall shot, still debating the vertical panel.

[pointdablame]

That's looking really great Paige.  I'd say since you wanted this machine to pretty much take the place of your collection, you might as well go for a vertical panel.  You've done a good job so far to not overdo the controls (IMO) so a nice minimal vertical panel would probably look really good.

[NoOne=NBA=]

The only problem I see with the vertical panel would be the "wish I'd" factor.

If you put ONE on, you'll WISH you'd put on two for cocktail games.

I think that you'd probably be better off with a dedicated vertical cab.
(Especially given all the cabs you got).

[Knoxximus]

Paige, I would personally go all out and put TWO vert panels...then it would be a gamer's TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE WET DREAM!  You've goten this far....you might as well take it all the home.  I'd put it dead in the middle of a room, too.

At the very least, go ahead and do ONE vert panel...that way I guess you could still make it somewhat wall-friendly.

[goofy]

How's this project coming along? Any progress. It looks really great so far.

[paigeoliver]

The only progress so far is that I have completed the wiring harness.

[paigeoliver]

I have also decided against the vertical panels. I have a vertical a 4-way cocktail and a vertical 8-way mini, so I don't need them.