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Pac-Fan:
"Real" arcade games used it all.

Pac-Man: 3/4 pine-based plywood sides + 3/4" Particle board top
Ms. Pac-Man: Same as Pac-Man or 100% Particle board with side stickers
Donkey Kong: 9/16" High-Gloss Melamine coated Teak-based plywood -or- 5/8" Semi-Gloss (pebble like) Melamine coated particle board
Omega Race, Blueprint, Bump-n-Jump: 3/4" High gloss melamine coated MDF
Atari: 3/4" or 13/16" particle board with semi-gloss black inside laminate


Use whatever you like. All have benefits and disadvantages.  Ideally a nice 9/16" plywood with melamine inside and outside coating would be the best for lightweight, take screws, cut easy, no painting, 'perfect' lamination, and more resistance to dents and scratches than paint. (Nintendo WAS thinking!).

However unless you do a special order job which would cost more than everything else you put into the cab, you're not going to find that anywhere.
Anubis_au:
I will be using wood for my cab, not MDF.

Mainly because I'm leaning towards a woody type finish as opposed to my original idea of the standard black painted cab.

Also, lighter.
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