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LordKaosNY:
Is it comfortable playing at a cocktail cabinet for an extended period of time?  I'm interested in knowing if you experience any pain in your wrists such as carpel tunnel.  Most upright control panels have space for you to rest your wrists.  Not so for cocktails.  Similiarily, does the angle of the monitor tend to hurt your back? 

---LKNY
Lilwolf:
The advantages that cocktail tables have is that inbetween ever level, you take your hands off the controls, and grab the beer on top of the cocktail table... Take a drink... then continue.

So by the time your wrists hurt... You don't care :)


Reallly though.. I don't think you will have an issue with a pacman type horizontal one.  I personally don't like the ones that stick out the side though.
LordKaosNY:
I would also like to hear from a few that have a 3rd control panel for fighting games.  Do you find it uncomfortable on your wrists to play for an extended period of time?

Has anyone seen a 3rd control panel that is big enough to support your wrists or is this just a tradeoff of going with a cocktal cabinet?
LordKaosNY:
Anyone spend significant time playing games on a cocktail cabinet care to comment?
paigeoliver:
I have played at my Midway Gorf cocktail for hours at a time without issue, it is a vertical one, no 3rd control panel. No issues at all.

Also, I love arcade games, but I will very rarely put in an arcade playing session longer than a half hour or so. The main exception would be Robotron (and NEITHER ONE of your wrists is getting any support in Robotron).

If there is any "issue" with cocktail games it is how you usually end up bent just slightly forward while playing, at least I do, but it could be that I picked my chairs for it because they had real 1980 flavor, and not because they were good cocktail chairs.
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