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Title: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: emb on August 24, 2012, 09:20:35 pm: My wife gave me approval to build a cocktail cabinet and have been poking around on the forum threads based around cocktails ever since.

What is your favorite cocktail cabinet, and why? I am looking for inspiration ;)

Pics and/or links are appreciated.

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Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: ccmathome on August 24, 2012, 09:27:46 pm: I happen to like the colors on this one
(http://img.tapatalk.com/ad91d9bb-2a13-b87f.jpg)

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Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: Unstupid on August 24, 2012, 09:28:30 pm: I like mine... Actually, the wife likes it and that's the main thing!
Title: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: emb on August 24, 2012, 09:29:42 pm: Have any pics of it?

EDIT: nevermind, found it
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=118297

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Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: Slippyblade on August 24, 2012, 09:45:15 pm: I'm following this as well since I want to do a cocktail myself. Ideas folks! And links to plans would be greatttt. In memo form.
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: Le Chuck on August 24, 2012, 09:53:47 pm: Both of these received MAMEY Awards back in the day. They rock. See the Mamey Page (http://massive.mameworld.info/NEWMAMEY/mod.htm)

(http://massive.mameworld.info/NEWMAMEY/firstlook.jpg)

(http://massive.mameworld.info/NEWMAMEY/rotatesmall.jpg)

Tom G's a coffee table (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,113919.0.html) was nominated for a UCA this year.

(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb247/TomLo-tec/Mame%20Arcade%20Cocktail%20Coffee%20Table/DSC00093.jpg)

CWorley did a classic Pac Man cocktail (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,116076.msg1278928.html#msg1278928) that came out very nicely recently.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=185470)

For another ultra modern take on the cocktail I'd be remiss if I didn't mention jkdubb's cocktail table project (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,118776.msg1276756.html#msg1276756).
(http://i.imgur.com/A3zTw.jpg)
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: popsicle on August 25, 2012, 10:07:29 am: "If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it for a spittoon"

link http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,104229.msg1102713.html#msg1102713 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,104229.msg1102713.html#msg1102713)
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: Player 3 on August 25, 2012, 10:55:30 am: Quote from: popsicle on August 25, 2012, 10:07:29 am
"If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it for a spittoon"

Ever since seeing this a while back, I always waned something like that.
(Danggit, why do we upload pictures instead of an external host?)
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: Bender on August 25, 2012, 11:04:39 am: I want somebody to build this! oh and you might as well automate the transform functions while your at it ;)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=170084;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=170088;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=170086;image)
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: Bender on August 25, 2012, 11:21:35 am: also there was a green and black one with some pinup art on it that was nice but I can't find it :-[

ahh here it ishttp://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,103483.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,103483.0.html)
simple but well executed
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w89/x3rdgearx/Cocktail%20Build/Photo-00292.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w89/x3rdgearx/Cocktail%20Build/Photo-0036.jpg)
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: mgb on August 25, 2012, 11:47:02 pm: I really like the classic midway style like how Unstupid did his. Great job.
But that bright yellow pacman cocktail is pretty darn cool.
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: apfelanni on August 26, 2012, 05:17:24 am: my advise is to decide first if its gonna be more of a deco furniture or useful arcade machine . nearly all classic designs are pita when it comes to playability. building a cocktail table from scratch is very difficult compared to other cab designs . u have to consider so many things , like hight and depth of the cab and panelsize , screensize , screentype crt or lcd (ips panel ) viewing angle ! , players sitting position ( most classic arcadecab developers seem to have forgotten that humans have legs or can be more than 1,50 m tall ) . reasonable screensizes are 15-21 inch vertical and 20-25(23us) inch for a 2p hori setup .

the good thing is , there is a lot of material on the inet. take all the time u need for studying pics n plans , build a cardbord mockup etc. to avoid a desaster.
Title: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: mgb on August 26, 2012, 02:18:43 pm: Man, after all this cocktail discussion and all these pics, now I'm hurting to build one!!! :angry:
My wife's gonna flip
Title: Re: Re: Your favorite cocktail MAME cab
Post by: ccmathome on August 26, 2012, 11:42:57 pm: Quote from: mgb on August 26, 2012, 02:18:43 pm
Man, after all this cocktail discussion and all these pics, now I'm hurting to build one!!! :angry:
My wife's gonna flip

Yeah tell me about it I'm wanting to do one also

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