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Midway Arcade Cabinet by Big Electronic Games
RayB:
I dunno VR, I respect your opinion, but you also come off like you're trying a little too hard to justify your purchase and be nice about the cabinet.
Let's see, $400 for the cabinet (and guts), + $100 for the mods = $500.
Now, a REAL arcade cabinet (gutted) is $Free to $75 and usually comes with a real coin door. A brand new real 19" arcade monitor is $170. Controls (if the gutted cab didn't come with some) could be about $70 for 2 players, seven buttons each. This totals at most $315, leaving still $185+ to invest into a used computer, keyboard encoder and shipping fees.
So I dunno. In the end, is it worth the crappy 13" tv, thin cheap construction, etc for the same price as putting together a "traditional" MAME cabinet?
vr_junkie:
Ken,
No, this is not a JAMAA. It's propritary - but Clay did the work so it plays like the real thing. Sounds are REAL good too once you get some powered speakers hooked up.
Are you REALLY on a 28k dial up... This is a joke - right? Anyway, you should be able to read the text and see the graphics following the direct links I provided without flash. If you really want, LMK and I'll put the stuff together for you in a straight html file.
Ray,
Regarding my purchase... I wanted to get something that was ready to go - I did not want to have to buid it from scratch. At the time I decided I wanted one I did not know much about the internals how they worked etc. But I knew I wanted something - and I did not want to be limited to 1 game.
From my research, It was going to cost over 2 grand to get a fully functional cabinet delivered to my door. And these 2 grand units were stripped down or limited in some way. The really nice ones are 3-5 grand! I make a pretty good living, I could afford a 3-5 grand unit if I really wanted to, but I didn't REALLY want to invest that kind of money to simply play Robotron, Defender, and Tempest (my 3 favorite games) ocassionaly.
Also a BIG iussue was space. My rec room already has a bar, full size pool table, 3 in one card/bumper pool table, Tornado foosball table, hand built chess table, dart board, and a home theatre setup - I truely have nowhere to put a full size cab - so the smaller size of this one was a real plus.
So while it obviously isn't for everyone - it was right for me. I would buy it all over again.
It's been fun using it, my kids love it, and when I have parties, people stand in line to play it - children and adults. I have yet to hear anyone complain about the quality!
And, it's been fun learning about these things and upgrading it. And it's proved to be tougher unit than I imagined... it's seen quite a bit of use for over a year now, and is still working fine.
BTW, I caught it on sale at Target last Christmas, talked them down over a scratch that would not show, and got an additional 10 percent off for getting their credit card - my cost out the door was under 300 dollars!
To the others posters,
Thanks for the compliments... I didn't make this post to wow any of you elite builders here, but to offer some help to anyone else who may be looking for a way to enhance their Midway cab - there is almost nothing on the net about these except critical comments.
Regards,
Lane
Ken Layton:
Have you also modified the Konami version?
vr_junkie:
Ken,
No, I have not. I believe it is EXTREMELY similar though. The controls look to be identical. So I think it could be modified just like mine... the only extra part you would need to do is put your own audio video switcher in if you wanted to run a console through it. The Midway came with one. Honestly, they did so much other work to run a console thu the midway - I can't figure out why they didn't give you a way to use the controls.
Lane
Ken Layton:
I see they also have a Golden Tee Golf out now. It's in a much different cabinet than the Midway one and more like the real commercial Golden Tee dedicated cabinet.
Has anyone modified/improved the "Arcade Game Room Classics - SNK Version" tabletop game by jazwares yet?
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