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Sasquatch!:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 03, 2005, 12:39:15 am ---I find HEIGHT  to usually be the biggest wife-turn-off when it comes to games. The shorter the machine the better. A cabinet that is 3 feet wide but only 4 feet tall will look smaller and less offensive to a woman than one that is only 2-feet wide, but that is 6 feet tall.
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I was just thinking that a cabaret cabinet would be this guy's best bet.

elvis:

I really like the black+chrome look.  Two good ones are stuzza's:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,25051.0.html

And Blakey's:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,22821.0.html

I'm actually in the process of building a black+chrome cocktail cab for my living room inspired heavily by Blakey's creation.  And much of the reason for the black is also to keep the wife happy by not having a tacky woodgrain unit in the living room.  I'll be using uniform colours on the buttons for player 1 (all red js and buttons) and player 2 (all blue js and buttons) to hopefully keey things not too overt.

Of course, I'll be making a tacky woodgrain unit for the games room next year, but she doesn't know that yet. :)


Martoon:


--- Quote from: RayB on April 02, 2005, 07:53:33 pm ---going back to the original question... it's a bit of a vague question really. We don't know your taste. You could ask "can you suggest a couch that will suit other furniture", but really, the couch *I* like might not suit your taste and existing furniture at all.

Personally I like modern styles. But alot of people are into traditional (bleah) stuff. So... what are you into?

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That's a valid point.  The problem is, I don't really know what I'm looking for yet.  I thought I'd get sort of a general survey of examples of cabs that other people felt were inobtrusive, "living-room" style cabs, and see if I could get some ideas.

Here's a little more detail on my situation.  My wife is a professional harpist, so we have one of these:
http://www.lyonhealy.com/products/lyonhealy/pedalb/85-CG-web-FS.jpg
...and one of these:
http://www.thorharp.com/photos/models%20page/model_swan.jpg
There's also a small upright piano, a couple wood music stands, a light beige sofa, and a couple glass-doored wood bookshelves (full of books).  So there's a lot of wood.

She teaches harp lessons at the apartment, and some of her child and teen students have parents of the upper-class, snooty variety.  Some of them may take offense to a giant party toy in the living room, and that can cost us income.

Martoon:

Thanks for all the ideas and info so far, guys.  That's a big help.  So far, I'm leaning toward either a cocktail or a cabaret sized armoire-looking thing.

I think cocktails are cool, anyway.  The only problem I have with a cocktail is that I want a versatile cab (2 sticks + trackball + spinner + buttons), and cocktails have such limited CP space.  I'd almost have to do a 3 sided.

If I did the cabaret armoire, it would have everything hidden behind panels, kind of like Buzzdalf's, but smaller, and with the monitor tilted back.  The CP would need to flip up instead of slide out, because of the tilted monitor.

And of course, all of the sliding and flipping would be motorized, so I could press a button and it would turn into an arcade machine while playing the "Transformers" theme song. :)

Buddabing:

Com[Plex]'s table-top cab


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