Look at the degree of slant on this cab

[spidermonkey]

Yikes ! My wrists are aching just looking at it.

[menace]

I see no cab-forgot pic?

[Jakobud]

It hurts my eyes to look at such a blank screen!

[paigeoliver]

I can't see it, but I own some pretty slanty cabs. The panel on my Amazing Mame is about 40 degrees, and the panel on my Mame Firebird is like 75 degrees (darn close to vertical).

[Magnet_Eye]

HOLY COW! It's slanted so far it's off the screen!

[Thenasty]

first time i ever saw a slanted invisinble MAME cab. I gotta get me one .  

[Brad Lee]

first time i ever saw a slanted invisinble MAME cab. I gotta get me one .  

I could probably 5 or 6 before the wife started bitchin

[spidermonkey]

http://www.imhz.com/mame/oldnews.htm

What a dumbass I am. Although I'm embarrased I did get a good chuckle at all of the replies.  Funny stuff.

[Tailgunner]

I've been wondering how long it'd take you to notice.

That's approaching a good slant for a driving/yoke panel, but it's a bit much for a joystick/trackball/spinner panel. Somewhere between level and 20 degrees is about right for a regular panel.  

[ErikRuud]

Aside from the extrem angle, the CP construction appears to be very much like mine.

I think this photo may help explain the extreme angle.:
http://www.imhz.com/mame/images/frust.jpg

[Dartful Dodger]

Without the pictures I was figuring, the slanted the better, it keeps people from resting their drinks on it.
But now I see, one of the pictures has a paper cup balancing in the groove between the monitor and the CP.

If you build it, the beverages will come.  So it's just as important to have a flat cp, so it lowers the chances of the cup falling over and the drink wont become a river running down the CP causing more damage.

[menace]

I'll never knock a guy that has his priorities straight..

Incredible progress!  Finalized my divorce, got a house, and (the most important thing) got my MAME machine out of my parents basement and into my game room.  Added a light gun, got it on the internet, and started on the artwork.  Here's a  pic...

way to go dude!! although that slant would kill me...

[AlanS17]

I know the topic of slant has come up before for being important for ergonomics.

However, I've had my totally flat CP in use for 3 or 4 months in a frat house now and nobody has ever complained (and we're talking about 100's of people who have played it). It's not just the the slant, but also the height that matters for comfort. I think the height on mine is somewhere close to perfect like those old SF machines.

Of course, the CP is so big and flat that I HAD to install cup holders. I would find 7 or 8 drinks sitting on it at the end of a party!  

[SirPeale]

Stupid page is built for IE.  Can't view the pics in Mozilla.  But I found the DIR okay, that is quite the slant, eh?

[OSCAR]

I even find the slant on my Guerrilla War (dynamo cab) to be uncomfortable and distracting.  I can't play on that cab too long.  I much prefer a flatter control panel like on my MAME upright or multi-williams Sinistar cabinet.

[paigeoliver]

Aw, you can get used to almost anything. I play on cabs with 30-75 degree slants all the time. My maze has a slant between 30 and 45 degrees, as does my Time Pilot cocktail, and my Space Firebird has a nearly vertical panel. All those are straight from the factory too.

Although it might be a lot more of an issue with larger panels, all my games have smallish panels.