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unclet:
I think a lot of people on here forget about little kids playing these games.   When you have kids, they have friends which come over and once they see the cabinet they stay awhile.  Also they come back frequently .... especially on rainy days.    I love it, since I know where my kids are and can keep an eye on them.

Basically I wanted to build one upright cabinet so wanted to make sure I never felt like I left something off of the cabinet design.  If you going to do it, do it right and make it have everything so there is no regrets when it is done.   You can see this philosophy in my 6-panel rotating driving cab     ;D

Of course you need the space to house the cabinet and, in most cases, a very understanding wife  :applaud:
vidmouse:
I got my wife excited about it when I decided to put controls for Visual Pinball in.  Maybe she'll eventually convert to being a MAME fanatic too.
For me, I'm becoming more of pinball fanatic as I'm playing more.
unclet:
I have pinball buttons as well, but I wanted the location of the left/right flipper buttons to be like a real pinball table.   Check out my control panel (pic below) and see how it is angled.  You can not really see the pinball flipper button since it is black in color, but you get the idea. 

Might give you an idea if you are still tweaking your design a bit ...... perhaps.

vidmouse:
Your design is VERY close to one that I came up with just before I did the modular one.  It didn't look right with the narrowness of my main cab.
Jeff AMN:
I don't know why people get so down on the 4-player layouts. I'm building one for my office and it should be great. They worked well in the arcades, so there's no reason why it shouldn't work fine here. As long as you keep it from being cluttered (like making good use of shift functions), there's no reason to avoid a 4-player design if you're going to make full use of the capability.
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