Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: severdhed on March 07, 2008, 07:46:28 pm
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my friend owns an IT consulting business,where I also work. today we were fixing a computer for a client, and he mentions that he has a large dell TV that someone gave him, that he has no use for...and wanted to know if we wanted it. We told him to bring it over so we could take a look at it. as it turns out it is not a dell tv, it is a Gateway 36" monitor. it looked like a tv, but in fact it only has a VGA input. so, naturally we took it. we didn't get to fire it up yet, but it is in fact a 36 inch, 800x600 vga monitor. my friend wasnt exactly sure what he would do with it, so i suggested it would make a great arcade monitor. I have been after him to build a cabinet for a while. he has the PC ready to go, but hasnt put any effort into making the cabinet...but now with such a great monitor, i think he may finally start his cabinet. this makes me very happy, since i will get to help him build it. i just thought this was awesome. he has 3 kids who enjoy playing my cabinet when they come over, so this should be alot of fun. i'm thinking that with a monitor this big, it is just asking for a 4 player cabinet.
here is a link to the product page at gateway..do you guys think this would be good for in a cabinet?
http://support.gateway.com/s/MONITOR/Z01243/Z0124318.shtml
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That would make a great showcase, especially if you have swappable controls, and can do driving and shooting games.
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Weight 99 kg (218 lbs).
Yikes thats heavy!
I bet it would look ace in a cabinet!
Nice find!
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yeah, it is very heavy..he was initially planning on getting a gutted cabinet and modifying it, but now that he got this monitor for free, we are probably going to build one from scratch, since we probably won't find a cabinet big enough for this beast to fit in. I am going over there tomorrow, hopefully we will get some time to hook it up and see if it works. I know it isn't mine, but I am excited to have another cabinet to work on. mine is pretty much complete at this point, and my wife says i have to wait till after we have another child before i get to build another one. I was originally only allowed to have one cabinet, but I named this one ZakMan after our son Zakary...so it is only fair that when we have another child, i have to name one after them somehow also...:). so anyway, we probably won't start for a little while yet, but once spring rolls around and it isn't so cold in his garage, this will be a fun project.
i don't know what gateway was thinking when they made this monitor...a 36" pc monitor that only does 800x600 seems pretty much worthless for anything other than a mame cabinet.
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That would make a great DDR cab! I recently got a 29" NEC presentation monitor, and that's what I plan on doing with mine...
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Please let us know what you do with it. I've got one sitting in my home office right now. I'm planning on making a Dreamcast cab out of it someday, I hope, but for now... :) It's just a HUGE conversation piece :)