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Com[Plex]:
okay, so this is my first cabinet, but don't let that fool you.

I came into possession of a 31.5" monitor, and decided t was time to make that cabinet Ive been wanting all these years. I dont have a lot of room in my apartment, so a large upright with a frankenpanel wouldnt work. Therefore, I decided to build a cocktail cab big enough to replace our kitchen table, and call it good.

the end result, is a four sided cocktail cabinet, with a 4 player side for those few four player games, a two player joystick side for vertical scrollers like 1942, the oposite side for vertical oriented games with a trackball and custom spinner for tempest, arkanoid, centipede etc, and the second horizontal side for two player HTH combat games.

I had been warned that too many different controls in too small an area was 'tacky', so I felt that four sides for four different style games was just as good as a "spincade" and alot easier to construct.

I also needed it to be modular so I could move it out of the kitchen if I had to, so I built a base to house the tv and computer, and a seperate removeable control deck that can be taken off, alloweing the base to be rolled around

Flinkly:
my *blank*....

i always aspired to build a cocktail.  but now i don't think i'll even try.  good idea to make it the kitchen table too.  insterad of reading the newspaper everymorning, just play a quick round of pacman or somethin...

i like it, but what about the edges of the glass?  it looks like it overhangs a little too much without any support, i'd be afraid of it breaking.  oh, and while i'm thinking about it, what did you pay for all that glass?  well, i have a ton more questions, but i'll let someone else ask for a bit...

Silver:
Awesome! I love something a bit unusual.... A 31.5" in a cocktail....

I take you don't play many trackball games where you need a big push - that could hurt!

Ah you do have pics up.... any dimensions?

danny_galaga:
 :o  :o

now surely THIS is 'hall of fame' material?

walls83:
That is the biggest cocktail cab Ive ever seen.  That might be the biggest cocktail cab in the world.   How does it pay with 4 peeps hudled around.   Can everybody see or are people leaning into each other?

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