After months of reading this board, I dove in and started on a project of my own. I modeled it from some pictures of a joust cocktail that was for sale on ebay a while back. Then I sized it to fit a 19" monitor I had and voila.
The control panels are designed to be swappable - starting with a standard two joystick, 6 button layout, I'm planning on doing a 4 way layout and a tron layout as well.
The basic structure is complete - I'm now working on the first set of swappable control panels.
Anyway, I've been reading about everyone else's projects for so long, I guess its about time I de-lurked.