Coolest Arcade Cabinet of all time?

[zelony]

This has got to be one of the coolest arcades of all time.  Makes me want to build a replica for my self.

[syph007]

Cool, it's powered by barrels of toxic waste!

[garnerb350]

Awesome design ...I was like "WTF" when i saw it...but my mind keeps worrying about what would happen if somebody kicks the coin door...

My favorite is the "Frankenpanel" steampunk design...and im not much of a steampunk fan...




This one here would scare me when i was a kid...

[TOK]

I really wish I could get over the term "arcade" being a place and a "game" being in an arcade.
Alas, I'm an old codger so I'll I'm left to say is HOW COULD YOU! if you're the owner of Clicks.  

Yes, thats a very cool game.

[HaRuMaN]

Me too, I came in here expecting an arcade, only to find a single machine... 

[zelony]

Most people use the term arcade as both the machine and the location.  By your logic these forums should be renamed to game controls.

[Ginsu Victim]

I really wish I could get over the term "arcade" being a place and a "game" being in an arcade.

Yeah, I was expecting a topic on arcades, not games.

Ignoring that, I really like the setup in those first pics. That's pretty cool.

[Epyx]

Well here in Canada...an arcade is a place filled with "arcade machines" or "arcade cabs"...we never called a single machine an "arcade" always...we are going to the arcade to play games or going to the corner store/7-11 to play the "arcade machines"

Not sure where the arcade for 1 cab came from but no my generation/location

EDIT: I see the OPs edit...mucho bettaro

[TOK]

Most people use the term arcade as both the machine and the location.  By your logic these forums should be renamed to game controls.

This gets right to the root of your misunderstanding. "Arcade Controls" doesn't imply a place.  "Arcade" by itself does. I'll admit that its a nitpick, but it matters here.

[HaRuMaN]

Yup

[Ginsu Victim]

You don't call a roller coaster a "theme park".

[u_rebelscum]

I think "arcade" started being used to discribe a single machine when the first cab was mamed.  "The whole arcade in one machine!" 

Me agree: arcade = location, arcade cab = a machine in the arcade that with others make it an arcade.

Of course, the really old people who grew up before there were real arcades think arcade show mean something boring, like "a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns."  Ridiculous.

[Ginsu Victim]

Of course, the really old people who grew up before there were real arcades think arcade show mean something boring, like "a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns."

Columns?

[MaximRecoil]

Most people use the term arcade as both the machine and the location.

No, most people don't do that.

By your logic these forums should be renamed to game controls.

No, "arcade controls" are controls you use in an arcade when playing the games. "Space Port" for example, is an arcade (a chain of arcades in fact). Pac-Man for example, is an arcade game / arcade machine / arcade cabinet.

[ChadTower]

Now it's a pedant party!

[MaximRecoil]

Now it's a pedant party!

Who invited the heckler to the "pedant party"?

[DashRendar]

Coolest arcade would probably be Flynn's Arcade!   

[RayB]

I put the people who call single machines "arcades" in the same category as those who call a video arcade machine a "pinball", and game cartridges "tapes".

Reminds me of my grandfather who would call automobiles "machines". He'd talk about going places "by machine". Quite odd.


Zelony: Care to add some information regarding those photos, or did you just luck onto them somewhere?

[zelony]

The photos are from this ebay listing http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300325295754.

You know, all this bickering over the use of the word arcade is one of the reasons I don't post very often, sucks the fun right out of these forums.

[Ginsu Victim]

You know, all this bickering over the use of the word arcade is one of the reasons I don't post very often, sucks the fun right out of these forums.

And yet some of us view this AS fun. It's so played out that most of us don't take it serious.

Lighten up, Francis.  

Go hang around KLOV for a while and you'll appreciate us more.

[TOK]

The photos are from this ebay listing http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300325295754.

You know, all this bickering over the use of the word arcade is one of the reasons I don't post very often, sucks the fun right out of these forums.

Well, technically the word "bickering" would mean some people agree with you, and we are arguing. I think this would be more correctly referred to as a beat down.



Just teasin' ya. 

[Kevin Mullins]

Pac-Man for example, is an arcade game / arcade machine / arcade cabinet.

I could that differently....

Arcade Game - software and hardware that makes up the pcb
Arcade Cabinet - the case in which the parts are held
Arcade Machine - as the term "machine" would imply all the parts put together to create a whole functioning unit

 

But whatever..... we all clicked on the thread, we all saw the intentions in the first post, big whoopdee doo on the rest.

And that is a cool setup in the original post. 

[MaximRecoil]

I usually call them "arcade machines", and always have.

Arcade Game - software and hardware that makes up the pcb

That's usually called the game board, or something similar. BTW, one of the definitions of "game" is:

The equipment needed for playing certain games: packed the children's games in the car.

Arcade Cabinet - the case in which the parts are held

That's how I use that term as well, but the parts are integrated into the cabinet, and it does distinguish from arcade: a place. 
 

Arcade Machine - as the term "machine" would imply all the parts put together to create a whole functioning unit

Indeed.

[Kevin Mullins]

So it's agreed then ..... we now call them Entertainment Widgets. 

(as I run off to create a wiki definition) 

[zelony]

I showed the pictures to my wife, she agreed that it is a really cool "cabinet". ;-)  Anyway, I think that building a replica of this cabinet should be relatively easy.  I am thinking of using a Playstation 2 as the internals as there are a lot of shooting games for it. Although I might use an actual Site 4 machine, since I found one to buy local.  If I do build one, I will post my build process and even refer to it as a cabinet or entertainment widget. ;-)

[Turnarcades]

The whole arcade/game/cabinet differential could also be a regional thing, not just a generational issue. I'm from England and back in the day, all kids I knew including myself would generalise the term 'arcade' to refer to both the venue and the machines themselves. It usually depended on the context in which it was used, but it was mainly because it was simply a familiar word to abbreviate to in general conversation or when pestering your parents in anyway on the subject!

Again there are other Brits who will not have done this, but I'm just talking from my experiences. These days I do tend to be more specific from being on boards like this, but then in real life I've had to adopt the very American term 'video arcade machine' or simply 'pac-man machines' when talking about what I do for a living as all definition of the correct term has also been lost over time, as if I say 'arcade cabinet' they think I build grabber machines and if I say 'arcade games' they always assume fruit machines (another debatable term as we grew up referring to those as 'bandits').

To be honest, I just don't care how like-minded people care to refer to arcade machines, so long as they're comfortable with it. I'm not the kind of guy who walks round telling people "it's nuc-lee-er not nuc-ular!" or "for god's sake, it's Porsch-er!"

[Epyx]

Just asked my lifelong friend about this and he reminded me we called them either "arcade machines" or "arcade games" or just "games" at the time.  Again, that is here in Canada though.

But if you want to call it a dead parrot im okay with that.../sigh

[surface tension]

That's a great arcade machine/cabinet/unit. I think most people would have trouble getting it past the wife though, unless the garage is purely the man's domain.

[Vamp RN]

But if you want to call it a dead parrot im okay with that.../sigh

It's not dead it's just sleeping.

[Kman-Sweden]

OMFG. 

[BamBam]

Well here in Canada...an arcade is a place filled with "arcade machines" or "arcade cabs"...we never called a single machine an "arcade" always...we are going to the arcade to play games or going to the corner store/7-11 to play the "arcade machines"

Not sure where the arcade for 1 cab came from but no my generation/location

EDIT: I see the OPs edit...mucho bettaro

This Canuck concurs with that Canuck 

[ChadTower]

I'd tell you what my wife calls them but there are rules about circumventing the autocensor.

[Ummon]

HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH. A party after my own heart. Having seen it enough, I did know exactly the error being made by the OP, when I read the title. (Where's Jeff, ta run the kids off....)

That's a neat 'cab'. I'd never have one, but kudos for cuteness.

[DashRendar]

Back to the original question-

In the Projects forum here, there was an awesome project being worked on that made a cocktail look like it was the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Unfortunately, I think Somunny gave up on the project (he was getting close to done too).   
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=76255.0

I think that Drventure's MAME Machine in an Antique Buffet is defintely up there on the "cool list".   
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=88515.0

[ammitz]

But if you want to call it a dead parrot im okay with that.../sigh

It's not dead it's just sleeping.

I would definately say it's resting not sleeping

[Epyx]

I would definately say it's resting not sleeping

Lol, ya I had just watched that before I posted...classic Circus

[kagaden]

I put the people who call single machines "arcades" in the same category as those who call a video arcade machine a "pinball", and game cartridges "tapes".

Reminds me of my grandfather who would call automobiles "machines". He'd talk about going places "by machine". Quite odd.

I put people who call single machines "arcades" in the same category as those who call all types of soda, "pop" or "coke".

My favorite cabinet was any type of showcase cabinet... The first time I had seen one I was blown away. I remember telling myself "when I get older, I'm going to have one of those..."
Now I do, and they're still my favorite.

[Ginsu Victim]

I put people who call single machines "arcades" in the same category as those who call all types of soda, "pop" or "coke".

Soda is short for "soda pop" so "soda" or "pop" both work.

[JustMichael]

I put people who call single machines "arcades" in the same category as those who call all types of soda, "pop" or "coke".

Well "pop" is part of the "soda pop" name for sweetened, flavored, carbonated beverages.  Now "coke" is a whole different matter.  It is the shortened version of Coca-Cola brand name of soda pop and should not be used to refer all soda pop.  In some parts of the US they do refer to all soda pop as "coke".  I don't know why but I think it is just not right.

[MaximRecoil]

Soda is short for "soda pop" so "soda" or "pop" both work.

Well "pop" is part of the "soda pop" name for sweetened, flavored, carbonated beverages.

It was originally called "soda water", and was sold from "soda fountains" and glass bottles. The term "soda pop" came later. So "soda" is not short for "soda pop", it is short for "soda water". "Soda pop" is a separate branch of the etymology.

Additionally, both "soda pop" and especially "pop" sound corny.