What's the First Ever Mame Cabinet you stumbled on?

[rampy]

What's the First Ever Mame Cabinet you stumbled on?

(well it doesn't technically need to be mame, but you know what I mean)

The first one I saw was Tim Eckels at A@H  (warning pop ups and installers galore)... yeah I know boo-hisss...   From his page i found mameham's and retrocactus... my favorite back in the early days was mean green mame


*shrug* man I wanted one of these bad boys for a long time before I actually got it together.  (I had also stumbled upon saints site many incarnations ago and read through the faq.. but since I had no cabinet, the research here didn't help me at the time...

so yeah... do you remember that fateful day, where you saw a site dedicated to putting emulators/mame into an arcade cabinet?

Rampy

[Birdtales]

 I was all into Computer Case Mods. Someone threw their Mame cab on one particular forum and everyone was asking how the heck does that constitute a case mod. A quick picture of the inside squelched those comments.

 The rest as they say its history. I'd like to thank that unamed soul even if I don't remember what his cabinet looked like since I've viewed every single example on the example page at least 3 times they tend to run together.  

[SNAAAKE]

Only one I could remember is arcade euphoria...
http://skum.org/arcade
I never thought I would try this myself(EVER !).

[Frostillicus]

I think the first one I really sat down to sift through was Mr. Salty's.  The rotating monitor idea was pretty cool - and I was lucky enough not to get too dissuaded by his 'matrices' and 'encoders' and those pics of a zillion little wires - keyboard hack maybe? i don't remember....
 

[CustomArcade]

I think I saw reetro cactus first, then Arcade@home..which sent me to here and Saint use to have "This is GONNA be my cabinet section" back in the day when the url was as long as the dictonary .

I remember shortly after I built my cab ROSEWELL appeared it use to be the IT cab. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh what a hobby

[Jakobud]

CmdrTaco's (slashdot head guy) cabinet...it was the first one I had ever seen on the web.  Took me about 5 seconds to decide to build one myself.

[AceTKK]

This is the first one I ever saw: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=567180&highlight=MAME

(the forum has been down a lot lately)

-Ace-

[SirPoonga]

I can't remember the first one I saw, I think that clear pacman.  But the Roswell one on the examples page is what made me build mine with a custom FE.

[paigeoliver]

The first one I ever saw was also the arcade&home one. I thought that was so cool back then. But looking at it again, it doesn't look that hot now (especially that vertical monitor bezel with a horizontal monitor, ICK!).

[Sasquatch!]

Shadow's PC Arcade.  Sadly, it seems to have disappeared.  Anyone know if it still exists anywhere?

I was just randmonly surfing around looking at emulation/MAME sites when I stumbled onto his site.  My jaw hit the floor at the idea of actually building a REAL ARCADE CABINET for playing MAME.  And, well, you know...    

[Brentley_11]

I came across a link to BYOAC on a computer modding forum and thought it was the coolest thing ever.  I never even heard of this hobby untill then.  The funny thing is that I gone to arcade@home.com many times a plenty for consle emu's and never even noticed what the rest of the site had to offer. lol. Goes to show how ignorent I can me sometimes.

[Luxury]

i think that is was this one.  while looking through ebay for a *real* arcade, i came across this one http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~faticaj/arcade/index.html for auction and VERY quickly learned all that i could about mame.  (was seriously considering buying it too - luckily i didn't cause i like mine more now anyways. )

[Chris]

The first one I remember was http://members.iinet.net.au/~cleathley/machine.html .

[chris_lemasters]

Another vote for Mr. Salty's -- I built a Defender-based cab because I the classic.  I agree with the earlier poster - the wiring complexity held me back for many months (!)

It might have been Kevin Umbach's machine that inspired building my own cab, versus converting an existing cab like Mr. Salty - check out the pic at http://www.arcadeathome.com/pic.phtml?images/kevin.jpg

Chris