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Title: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: toasty on July 17, 2013, 05:23:01 pm: OK all, here's the situation: used to be on these boards quite a bit. Moved into a new, very open house (not a single wall on the first floor, for example), and the wife was no longer on board with having all of this enormous arcade stuff out in the open where you can see it from everywhere. After years of going without, though, I'm once again getting a hankering to have a cab again.

With that in mind, has anyone ever created or even just seen an arcade cab that is designed to NOT look like an arcade machine? I don't mean that you stick the monitor in a hutch and the controls in a drawer, I mean a standalone piece of furniture that essentially looks like a table or a sculpture until you need it to be an arcade machine. Something with as small a footprint as possible, as discrete as possible. Thinking a cocktail-style cab would most easily lend itself to this, but I'm open to anything.

Could really use some inspiration, would love to see what others have come up with. Thanks!
Title: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: Le Chuck on July 17, 2013, 05:31:55 pm: Surface Tension

Tom G's A Coffee Table

Both are good examples, or you could hide the stuff inside a lifesize R2D2
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: gryhnd on July 17, 2013, 06:26:45 pm: I'm partial to my Island Cocktail. See link in .sig below...

edit: controls aren't hidden, but it also doesn't look like a traditional cocktail at all.
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: Maximus on July 17, 2013, 06:46:44 pm: (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/07/vasazydy.jpg)
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: knave on July 17, 2013, 07:11:45 pm: I sure have seen the "Barrel of Kong" pop up a lot lately.

...it never fails to impress...
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: gryhnd on July 17, 2013, 08:09:25 pm: A couple pics from http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,95265.msg1002674.html#msg1002674 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,95265.msg1002674.html#msg1002674) ;D

(http://www.skinners.us/skinners/Misc/CocktailArcade/IMG_5092.jpg)
(http://www.skinners.us/skinners/Misc/CocktailArcade/IMG_5090.jpg)
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: gryhnd on July 17, 2013, 08:09:54 pm: That's sweet :applaud:

Quote from: Maximus on July 17, 2013, 06:46:44 pm
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/07/vasazydy.jpg)
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: Silverwind on July 17, 2013, 10:28:16 pm: Quote from: knave on July 17, 2013, 07:11:45 pm
I sure have seen the "Barrel of Kong" pop up a lot lately.

...it never fails to impress...

So far it is the favorite one that I have seen. Although there is some nice woodwork on that island cocktail cab also!
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: bsktbllmn23 on July 18, 2013, 12:02:34 pm: This one has been my favorite for a while. We recently bought a house that was renovated and they finished out the entire basement which is our "family/play room" and I want to have a cocktail cab in down there. This design is the one I am currently trying to convince the wife to let me build. (but I am ALSO currently building/flying quadcopters, so its not easy to convince her haha)

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,118776.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,118776.0.html)

So pretty!(http://i.imgur.com/7ktx5.jpg)
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: toasty on July 18, 2013, 12:44:45 pm: thanks for the feedback, some great ideas on here. I love the whiskey barrel, that looks pretty sharp!
Title: Re: Understated Cocktail Cab?
Post by: michelevit on July 18, 2013, 06:11:03 pm: I would buy that barrel of kong. Great job and great design. I'm not a fan of cocktail cabinets but I find the room for that one in my house.