The first cab I ever built! **warning: lots of pics**

[RayB]

For the past three weekend I've been de-junking my basement, and yesterday I found my old Sinistar cab I forgot I had!

Here are some pics:
(left side)

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(right side)

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(top-down angled view)

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(back view)

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(marquee)

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(high resolution gloss pigment monitor)

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(bottom)

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LAST PIC

(CP close up--note ultra rare WHITE ball-top 0-way
joystick)

[HaRuMaN]

ummm... wtf, lol.

[crashwg]

I'm guessing some sort of school art project...

[brained]

Nice cab!!!!

LOL

[whammoed]

MAME it!

[DYNAGOD]

get yourself a nokia, get a cell phone port of mame and mount the 1.5" lcd in it..

[Gunstar Hero]

Man, I hate bad conversions...  

[DarkKobold]

Aww, it says age 13! That is cool. Better than making another pinch pot, which is what I did in ceramics.

[RayB]

Haha... Gunstar, that's FUNNY!  

Here's the story:

This was my very first "Build Your Own Arcade Cabinet". I made it in 1983 when I was 13 (and it wasn't a school project--I did it for no reason other than my obsession with arcade games).

At that time, I would draw my own cabinet designs for fictitious games. Then I moved up to making fold-up paper cabinets just like that guy did recently (search this forum for "Paper Arcade"). Then my brother got a wood burning kit for his birthday. It came with some nice little pieces of light wood. I decided I'd make my own little wood cabinet to use as a pencil and stuff holder. I did the whole thing based off a couple photos in a game magazine (it was either "Electronic Fun" or "Electronic Games"). Why I selected Sinistar was strictly due to the colors of paint I had available (otherwise I would have done a Centipede or PacMan).

Everything you see up there is hand-painted. The wood was cut with a small hand hobby saw. The side art, marquee, and CP were done on paper and then glued on, followed by a coat of varish to keep it all on and protected. The joystick is a pin (the type used for pinning cloth when sewing or hemming).

The whole thing measures 7 inches tall.

I had plans to make a whole bunch of them, but time or money prevented that from happening.

~Ray B.  

[DrewKaree]

For the past three weekend I've been de-junking my basement, and yesterday I found my old Sinistar cab I forgot I had!

Man, I just read this and before I looked at the pix, I was thinking "just HOW MUCH crap do you have that you could lose a whole friggen CABINET in your house?"

I had visions of Mel Gibson's apartment in "Conspiracy Theory", crap everywhere, but you're set if a bomb drops!

[Gunstar Hero]

Glad I could be of service.  

In all honestly though, it looks better than the paper Transformers I made when I was in the fourth grade.

Sad, I know, BUT... through some skillful folding, most of them DID transform!

At least, until they lost a battle with the Match-icons.