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Title: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: SavannahLion on April 16, 2007, 11:03:03 pm

Do these things exist?

I'm not even sure what defines, "contemporary," style. All I know for certain is that contemporary is whatever is apprently defined at stores like Ikea. And what I see at Ikea is um.... whatever the ---fudgesicle--- is contemporary I guess.

My housemate wants a contemporary cab running Centipede and/or Bubble Bobble.

I'm thinking I can get away with building something like a Knieval slimcab and getting away with calling it contemporary.

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: Donkey_Kong on April 16, 2007, 11:13:42 pm

Or you could go all out like forum member ROM. One good example along the line of what you may be thinking...

Thread Link
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=26247.0
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=26247.0;attach=6913;image)

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: urbecrisch on April 16, 2007, 11:22:19 pm

Here's a more recent PIC.  What a great, unique CAB!

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: MaximRecoil on April 17, 2007, 12:57:31 am

Any of the sitdown Japanese "Candy" cabinets would probably be considered "contemporary" (whatever that word means -- it denotes something new every 5 minutes it seems):

(http://www.gamedude.com.au/arcade/images/candy_009.jpg)

Obviously you're not going to build one of these, but they usually aren't particularly expensive either, and they come with a large monitor (27"/29" I believe).

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: shorthair on April 17, 2007, 01:42:55 am

Those are contemporary. What's 'not particularly expensive'?

On the orange cab: very cool design.  I'd put more curves on it, but definitely smoother than most.

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: spacies on April 17, 2007, 01:51:47 am

What about me white one?

(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL757/2715941/5432451/208145199.jpg)

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: Mamed for life on April 17, 2007, 03:18:43 am

Is that not more minimalist?  ;D

Still the best looking cocktail cab I've seen though: nice one Spacies!

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: zorg on April 17, 2007, 03:51:11 am

Spacies,

where did you get this nice coin entry ??

can you provide me some pics of this one ?

thank's

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: danny_galaga on April 17, 2007, 06:10:23 am

yes, contempory would mean the candy cabs. thast probably not what you would want in the room though. id say a better word to describe what you might need is 'funky' or some such. roms cab for instance, or potts groovy machine

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=55917.0

knievels woodies fit the bill

and spacies definitely fits the clean 'ikea' look (",)

Title: Re: Contemporary Arcade Cabs
Post by: RayB on April 17, 2007, 09:54:20 am

This 2004 Sammy "Sport Shooting" cabinet is fairly nice:

(http://www.segaarcade.com/images/games/sportsshooting/cabinet.jpg)