Modern take on a Retro Cabinet Design - MAMEY WINNER

[kizer]

 
WOW

That thing is with out cussing. Awesome.

[spystyle]

Wow!

That is a masterpiece of engineering and artistic design.

It looks like it's from the future.

"Good on you"

[psychotech]

Yeah!

Awesome design and great attention to detail......... 

The screen mounting, even if it is stable, still makes it ...

MAMEY -

 

[Crowquill]

Why have I never seen this project before? That thing is beautiful.

In some ways it kind of reminds me of the Holosseum cabinet. Similar aesthetic.

[rackoon]

I think you could totally sell those like crazy if ya wanted. If you could find a way to make the control panel roll back to make a simplistic and sleek looking coffee table you could hit the market of rich guys that have wives that wont let them have such a machine in their living room. 

regardless, WOW THAT THING FREAKING ROCKS!

[spystyle]

That's a great idea - the cab could collapse into a table.

[Green Giant]

It would be more than meets the eye.

[Potts]

thanks for compliments

I did plan on selling them but to actually manufacture them would be very expensive - I just couldn't work out how to get the curves in the cabinet and allow the customer to assemble it at there end.  It's also very heavy and paint job had to be touched up to finish it properly before painting (something not possible in the mass production process)

cheers guys and girls
Potts

[Quaternion]

Does anybody have an archive of Potts' PDF file in the original post? It doesn't seem to be available from where he uploaded it any more.

(Sorry to bump the thread after this long, but not that sorry. Other noobs like me may not have seen it, so it won't hurt.)

[Potts]

Hey Quaternion

Heres a permanent link - http://monkeyobarrels.com/images/arcade_cabinet.pdf

cheers,
Potts

[Quaternion]

Heres a permanent link - http://monkeyobarrels.com/images/arcade_cabinet.pdf

Awesome, thanks. (And very inspirational, too!)

[MazzMn]

Ditto on this cab, Potts, do we have your permission to add this to the Example Wiki?
thanks

[Potts]

Sure - why not 

[MazzMn]

Thanks, I started this wiki entry, feel free to fill in or pass on more updated details
(I know you talked about changing to a mac mini and putting consoles in the box, not sure if we have the latests specs on this cab)
thanks
Mazz
Here is the post
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Modern_Cocktail

[Ummon]

*Off Topic*

I just read the pdf and one thing blew my mind... your arcades only cost 20 cents?  Just think, 5 plays for a dollar instead of the 4 we got in the states.... drool.

*On Topic*

Nice cab.  Very innovative.   

This is an old topic but I found it a roundabout way. It's interesting in that some time ago I was thinking about just this general design, but with a 27" monitor in upright fashion. Anyways, about game credit cost: there were arcades around here that, when they went to using tokens, were for a time five for a dollar.


<at end of thread> Oh. Looks like someone else fished it out before me.

Potts, maybe if you simplified the design so that cam locks held it all together, perhaps even the CP, and offer unfinished and laminated (instead of painted) options. You could even offer 'retro' (in which someone could use either an LCD or figure out their own mounting for a CRT) or variable like yours.

Also, to reclaim the space on the sides, there are spring-loaded hinges (like they had on hi-fi doors) that could eliminate the need for the struts - or you could just forget both and leave it to the assembler, depending.

On the monitor mounting, before seeing underneath, I had the idea you just built a cubby that the monitor slid into.