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Built 4 new cabinets - let me know what you think.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: ArcadeKO on April 22, 2010, 02:32:23 pm ---let me know what you think
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I think a lot of people are "being too polite", and not giving you any real criticism here.
Please take this with a grain of salt...
In general:
IMHO -- aesthetically, I don't like 'em. I'm having a hard time looking at them. Too many angles and straight edges. Foremost, your cabinet shape isn't my "cup o' tea". The marquee area (top protrusion area) jettisons way too far out. It's like this massive wasted space, that really makes the entire thing look too clunky for trying to be a slim cabinet. If I were standing in front of these cabs, I'd feel like I'm about to be swallowed up by them. I'd probably get a forehead tan by the marquee light! In fact, both the marquee area and control panel are way too big for my tastes. On top of being big, the marquee section itself doesn't fit the small marquee mounted. So you have this ugly corner sticking out below the marquee, very unflattering.
To me, these cabinets wouldn't be categorized as slim, which kind of makes it pointless for them to have LCD's.
The triangular angled shapes are the second thing that bugs me, you have this sloped bottom area that's only purpose is to counter-weight the top area. It sort of makes me feel that I should be resting my knees against it, but yet, because of the CP depth my knees wouldn't reach!
You're also missing t-molding. T-molding is a must, if not that, at least paint the edges another colour. It highlights the angles better and breaks up the monotony in the colours.
Speaking of colours, the red and blue choices is really hard on the eyes. They're too bright together, and the little bit of colour you have at the base of the cabinets just looks like a last minute addition, again, to break up the monotony. Yet fails because it's the only thing on the cabinet that draws your eyes away from the radioactive burning of the red+blue, and just isn't interesting to look at. The colours just don't work.
Donkey Kong:
Aside from the general comments above, the CP doesn't make sense to me. First, the joystick is resting way to low to be comfortable. Second, the 2 buttons being so far from the joystick also looks uncomfortable. Third, there is so much unnecessary CP space for 1 joystick and 2 play-buttons that if I were to pass by this cabinet I'd feel intimidated to go up to the controls.
Galaga:
CP layout, again doesn't look comfortable. The trackball could have been mounted below the plexi top, so you don't have the ugly black square bracket showing, this is just lazy. As well, I'm having a hard time understanding why you put it to the far right instead of center? This is going to be hard for a lot of games to be controlled from that angle, and by the looks of the other cabinets, you don't seem to have a problem with the play buttons being far from the joysticks anyways. So why not put the trackball in the middle? Also, the start buttons are lower down the panel...which is inconsistent with the positions on the other cabinets. For the colours, at least you did a bit of a design on the side panels...but the front panel artwork seems out of place compared to the simplicity of the side-art, as well as being positioned too low. Again, it looks like this decision was made in haste, or as a last minute addition.
Marvel:
It looks like the top areas needs just as much artwork as the bottom half of the cabinet. It's like you went half way with the artwork, then got lazy to finish it off. I only say this because the artwork you've pasted on here is so rich in details, that the black space on the sides feels really empty and unfinished. It would have been better to center it, so the black surrounds it like a frame.
The player start buttons being on the P2 front side of the CP would be annoying for me, and I'm not certain why there's a single red button above the P1 joystick. I also don't get why the middle button for each player is different (white base)...
Overall, I cannot say I like these cabinets at all, nor would I pay money for them. They have a lot of design, aesthetic, and ergonomic issues that I would have thought out more thoroughly before mass producing.
This is of course my honest opinion, take it as it is.
drventure:
Yeah, I gotta say, I'm not really digging the shape. It just seems to "flat" to me. Lack of tmold is a huge prob. They look unfinished to me.
But then, I'm kind of an old old school kinda guy, with wood and brass and copper and filigree and what not, so my view might not be very representative of your overall market ;)
Beretta:
hmm mines not even playable i hardly feel right criticizing someone else's.. but since you asked :P
1. colors.. red and blue do not mix, maybe you're a NY giants fan or something but it's hard on the eye's
2. marquee could be out further.. flush with front.. they're sitting about a inch or so back.. pretty minor though.
3. although i dig the overall profile i agree the base comes out to far.. it does look like it might cause some foot problems
4. CP are larger then they need to be.. unlike others though i can fully understand the larger cp if you are planing on having other more heavily populated CP's to swap on.. but if this is it then it's a lot of wasted space.
5. the corners need to be rounded off.. the sharp angles are unpleasing on the eye.. they are also more likely to be damaged.
6. t-molding.. ya t-molding goes a long way and it will protect the edge of the cab.
over all though i like it.. i'd give it a "B", if i was at your house i'd definitely play on it anyway :P
and that's really the most important thing is'nt it?
i see solid effort here though.
MKFan4Life:
Love the spider-man graphics. That cab looks pretty nice, but why the unfilled area up top on each side? Looks like you may have rounded the wood with a router bit to knock down the edges a bit, which is good, but yeah, T-Molding for the win would be nice. Don't really like the placement of the Player 1 & 2 Start buttons on any of the cabs. They are too close to the other controls on the red cabs, and I have NEVER liked buttons on the front facing of the control panel. Too easy to hit if the game would be interrupted by pressing them.
They do look clean enough for my tastes, but things like the trackball mounting plate being hidden, better contrasting colors (on the red cabs), and the addition of T-Molding would help top it off.
I have seen some say the marquee looks either too far out, or too far in, but it seems fine to me, but I have not looked at many slim-cab designs with LCDs, so the argument about them taking up too much space and jutting out too far might have validity here. On normal cabs with CRTs, the marquee seems fine.
And the foot space argument. Well my Gauntlet Legends cab has the CP sticking out only about 5 inches at the farthest point in front when compared to the coin doors below, my MK2 cab has only 2 1/4" and MK1 has about 3/4" ONLY from the farthest point out on the CP when compared to the coin doors, so I think it's not as big of a problem as people think since I have never heard people bash Midway's designs.
I guess if you're going to be on a stool in front of the cab for a long time, though, I could see the argument there. But I usually stand. Some people may be sitting for hours.
rlemmon:
I like them, but i agree the red and blue is hard on the eyes. I think they would also look better with a real of fake coin door. Or even one of those coin door graphics from groovygamegear.com
Were did you find non widescreen lcd monitors ?
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