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| CaptainRhythm:
I've thought a lot about the cab design i'll build. At first i went the classic upright slim-master, modded for my needs. Then i thought about the standard arcade designs and why it they were shaped the way they were. They were designed the way they were because the designers knew a lot of children would play them and they would get a lot of abuse. So, if a personal arcade isn't going to get a lot of abuse and children can be told the rules and monitored, why follow the traditional lines of design? So i doodled and came up with something modern, fit my needs and was pretty neat (if not a little novel). (The top left it my original sketch.) It's more or less a lazy boy with a 'dentist x-ray swing arm-like' swing arm with an LCD monitor attached to it. Two joysticks for robotron and smash TV play and 6 buttons for fighters/everything else. The PC part would be housed in the underside of the chair, it wouldn't recline. The one obvious drawback from this design is the loss of two or more players. I thought about that, and if I went with this design, later I'd add a second lazy boy without the computer, split the monitor (it would have it's own monitor) and speaker signal and wire over the controls. I'd basicly be a slave booth with A/V inputs and control outputs. Any ideas of thoughts? (Note: I got the perspectives and dimensions wrong, but it was all in paint.net, so it's a rough outline.) |
| pinballwizard79:
just get a play station or xbox |
| Malenko:
--- Quote from: pinballwizard79 on October 03, 2008, 12:03:21 am ---just get a play station or xbox --- End quote --- or just build a stand alone controller. |
| ChadTower:
The design only works if you have a fat guy in an orange suit yelling "STAY ON TARGET" at you over a tinny radio. |
| jharris:
@OP: Why not just buy a fancy gaming chair? |
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