Move Trackball or Angle Monitor?

[ninjazx7]

Hey guys, I am getting ready to build the actual cabinet for my Arcade, and would like some input. I want to play Golden Tee in the cab, but don't want to break my fingers doing it..... I have the "standard" blueprints that are out on the web and am wondering what people think is the best route to take.

1) I can make the CP bigger in order to place the trackball further away from the monitor.

or

2) I can angle the monitor, like a real Golden Tee cabinet so your hand can come up on the followthrough.

I'm thinking about going with #2, but am a little concerned about how other games will look with the monitor angled when you're playing.

What do you guys think?

[neuromancer]

You could do either.

FWIW, most of the classic games had slanted monitors. Generally, from an ergonomic standpoint, you will be most comfortable with your head looking slightly down.

You can see best when the center of the monitor is at a tangent to your direction of view. It minimizes the amount of re-focusing you need to do.

Bob

[Howard_Casto]

Also in most cases for large control panels, the angle of the cp is at an opposite angle as that of the monitor, which is prependicular to the angle cut on the front edge of where your monitor sits.  I hope that makes sense, because it's hard to explain.  

In other words if the angle of the sides of your cab (at the area where the monitor sits of course) you make a right angle off of it and determine the angle of the monitor shelf.  You then take the shelfs angle and mirror it on the cp so that the back edge of the cp and the front edge of the monitor shelf meet, like the peak of a roof.  

Unless you are really short or you cabient is a sitdown model, you almost have to angle the monitor to make it comfortable to view.  Somewhere between 15 and 45 degrees is the norm depending upon the model and orientation of the monitor.