Mini Arcade Cabs

[IG-88]

Don't know if this has been posted yet or not. Pretty cool.


http://tinyurl.com/p3otxc

[Beretta]

think someone did a couple weeks ago.. they are cute i had'nt seen the neogeo before..

they are superbly done and really cool novelty but i can't see anyone spending real time on one, they're just so small.

[IG-88]

Agreed. I would have personally done something different with the ball tops. They look too big. 

[Ummon]

Note the buttons are pretty big, too. They used real arcade controls.

[RayB]

He said the buttons are mini sanwa arcade buttons and the joystick is from a Space INvaders TV game (those toy games you plug straight into a tv)

[ark_ader]

They look like my submini....

[melarky]

Fun, reminds me of the mini arcade I made, I just used a jaks game and a 5" lcd.

[severdhed]

i'd love to build a mini cabinet for the kids, but my wife is pretty set against it.     my 2 year old loves to sit on the bar stool with me when i'm playing on my upright cabinet...and just yesterday, i had my old control panel sitting on the floor, and my 8 month old crawled over to it and started pushing buttons.   i can't help but think that if i had a small cabinet that the kids would love to go play with it. (even if they are a little too small to actually understand)

i'm thinking i'm probably better off to wait until the little one is about 4 or so, then build a half-size cabinet or something.


i love these little cabinets though

[retrometro]

Fun, reminds me of the mini arcade I made, I just used a jaks game and a 5" lcd.

this is one of the coolest cabs i've seen

[THE POKER BRAT]

HERES MY PAC-MINI/JAKKS GAME INSIDE

[patrickl]

think someone did a couple weeks ago.. they are cute i had'nt seen the neogeo before..

they are superbly done and really cool novelty but i can't see anyone spending real time on one, they're just so small.

I built something similar with a PocketPC in the center:



I made the buttons and joystick to scale, but that way they are a lot less playable. Still, even a cab a foot tall is actually pretty playable. On birthdays it would get a lot of play.

Kids play on a DS or PSP. Why not on something with better controls bolted on top?

[SavannahLion]

Yeah, I saw that on HaD (and again on Digg I think) not too long ago. The actual build thread is at elotrolado.net. Can't read Spanish very well but the pictures are very informative.