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    Image of monkpod monkpod
    09/09/09

    In reply to How to Make Your Very Own Badass Arcade Cabinet for Cheap-ish

    I built an arcade cabinet and some games for my thesis project. It was really easy and cheap. A few Happ Joysticks, Buttons, an Arduino and some software and that was it.

    [rewiredpictures.com]
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    09/10/09

    @monkpod:
    While I commend your work I have to question the logic behind the tiny porthole screen and the low unit height considering that you and/or your friends are too tall to play that comfortably.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/09/09

    In reply to How to Make Your Very Own Badass Arcade Cabinet for Cheap-ish
    Them Street Fighter buttons there!
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    Image of Shlomo Zachary Snyder Shlomo Zachary Snyder
    09/09/09

    In reply to How to Make Your Very Own Badass Arcade Cabinet for Cheap-ish
    And here's the Arcade Coffee Table.
    It cost me a whopping $200, but that because I wanted quality 2-player arcade controls from X-Arcade, which run about $100... it would probably cost less to wire your own but I lack the skills at the moment...

    Whenever a friend or family member wants to throw a working old computer and CRT monitor out in the garbage (!!!!) I snag it and make and arcade :)
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    09/10/09

    @Shlomo Zachary Snyder:
    I've seen reviews of the X-arcade and they're not great especially at its price point. Building your own would probably run half the cost. As long as you know how to solder the wiring is dead simple (and well documented online), only tricky part is making a case for the controller but if you have the tools you can do it with some reasonable woodworking skills.
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    Image of @prixdc @prixdc
    09/09/09

    In reply to How to Make Your Very Own Badass Arcade Cabinet for Cheap-ish

    My roommate and I built one earlier this year. Ran us about a grand for a 4-player, 6,500-game cabinet.
    [themameproject.blogspot.com]
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    09/09/09

    @@prixdc: I second the question of wood-working. How difficult did you find the project? Also, serious kudos, man. You went all out.
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    Image of egoods egoods
    09/09/09

    @OCEntertainment: I've built a MAME cab. and also restored a Pac-Man cab. Between the two, starting fresh is relatively easy. Make sure to learn the ins and outs of cutting MDF (the wood used in most cabinets). If memory serves you need to use a fine tooth blade to keep from getting gnarly edges. If you have a router, circular saw, and maybe a jig you should be OK.
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    Image of RosalieHaruhist RosalieHaruhist
    08/19/09

    In reply to Arkeg Drink-n-Game Cabinet Hides 55 Beers Behind Breakout
    They forgot cupholders...
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    08/19/09

    In reply to Arkeg Drink-n-Game Cabinet Hides 55 Beers Behind Breakout
    Personally I'm waiting for someone to design a PinMAME cabinet using an HD TV turned length-wise as the playfield.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    08/19/09

    In reply to Arkeg Drink-n-Game Cabinet Hides 55 Beers Behind Breakout
    After 14 or 15 beers, I might start to believe that I hadn't crapped 4k away on this.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/19/09

    @Segador: just make a batch of barley wine, it will take you half as much beer to get crocked, so you'll worry 50% less about how much you paid for it.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    08/19/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore: I've been making my own beer for years. San Antonio Homebrew Supply is run by a batshit-insane stoner who only realizes he has customers about 50% of the time, but he does have some killer barleywine recipes.

    PS- Todd, if you read Giz, I'm only joking, man. Your shop rocks.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    08/19/09

    In reply to Arkeg Drink-n-Game Cabinet Hides 55 Beers Behind Breakout
    Arkegnoid?

    Captain Kegmerica and the Kegvengers?
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    08/19/09

    In reply to Arkeg Drink-n-Game Cabinet Hides 55 Beers Behind Breakout
    Dude, DON'T BANG ON IT!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/19/09

    @strider_mt2k: Is it just me or does that thing look like some drunk moron's gonna knock it the hell over with a few good stumbles or smacks when he loses and gets fatalitied?
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    08/19/09

    In reply to Arkeg Drink-n-Game Cabinet Hides 55 Beers Behind Breakout
    Probably build one yourself for less than half that price. It's basically a computer built into a arcade looking cabinet with a kegerator hooked up to it. A little more creativity would be nice. Something like games that would automatically trigger the machine to fill up a beer to drink whenever you lose or something. Also, I wouldn't know where to get kegs these size kegs.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/19/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: That is a "Sixth Barrel" which is a standard keg size. It is smaller than your "Pony Keg" or quarter barrel.

    The other nice thing about this setup is that it is also the proper size to hold homebrew beer.
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    Image of hewhoroams hewhoroams
    08/19/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore:

    Commonly used by homebrewers, but also for kegging soda. It's called a cornelius keg
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    08/19/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore: Homebrewers on Giz...who would have thought.
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    08/19/09

    @hewhoroams: Or just Corny for short.
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    08/19/09

    The commenting issues in the last few days are starting to get really annoying. Comments not loading, not posting, or not looking like they post so you post again and double post...
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/26/09

    In reply to TrashCade Is the Ultimate Hobo Arcade Cabinet
    Wow.

    Hobos that that kind of access to packing tape?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/26/09

    In reply to TrashCade Is the Ultimate Hobo Arcade Cabinet
    If it can double as a fort, pure mother-flippin' win.


    Hobomodo needs to be updated.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/26/09

    In reply to TrashCade Is the Ultimate Hobo Arcade Cabinet
    What's up with all these arcade stands? I prefer to sit down while playing video games.
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    Image of DaveExile (SimANT for iPhone NOW!) DaveExile (SimANT for iPhone NOW!)
    03/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Men play standing up!


    (couldn't help myself)

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/26/09

    @DaveExile: Oh snap.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/26/09

    @DaveExile: Do you play with your "joy" stick?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: "I prefer to sit down while playing video games."


    If by "sit down" you mean "lay dormant on the couch with head propped up by three pillows with the keyboard teeter-tottering across your belly while slurping Mountain Dew through a Flexi-Straw so as to leave the can parked stationery next to your head", then, yes, I agree with you.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/26/09

    In reply to TrashCade Is the Ultimate Hobo Arcade Cabinet
    As long as it's an LCD, then I see nothing wrong with it.
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    Image of TerryinSt.Paul TerryinSt.Paul
    03/26/09

    @KingBananaHammock_GitEmSteveDa...:
    Whereas, I see nothing right with it.
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    03/26/09

    @TerryinSt.Paul: Says the person with the farmer and a sheep avatar.... :)
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    Image of @prixdc @prixdc
    03/26/09

    @TerryinSt.Paul: Agreed. MAMEs need to be played on CRTs!
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    03/26/09

    @@prixdc: But CRT's in an enclosed cardboard box aren't the best idea.
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    03/26/09

    @KingBananaHammock_GitEmSteveDa...: Maybe the back is open for the venting?
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    03/26/09

    @jackfrost132: Pressed up against a wall would negate that.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/26/09

    In reply to TrashCade Is the Ultimate Hobo Arcade Cabinet
    We use to make stuff like this when I was 10.
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    Image of LuckyLakey LuckyLakey
    03/26/09

    @Software_Goddess: I used to live in something like this when iw as 10.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @Software_Goddess: We used to make stuff like this when I was 30...er, 10, heheh...too.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/26/09

    @luckylakey: I might have too, but my parents didn't get a new large appliance until I was 14. A refrigerator, by then I decided that I did not have to live on the street in front of our house, and that the parents weren't as alien-like as I once thought.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/26/09

    @Software_Goddess: Same here but we usually made spaceships, robots, the Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and stuff like that which always ended up being violently destroyed by freak meteor showers, angry giants, bizarre sea creatures, etc...
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/26/09

    @Software_Goddess: I admit that when I was twelve I was building arcade cabinets that looked remarkably similar to this, except I was using components from Radio Shack to make things move and lights flash. Still, the concept is the same - minus the actual technology to have a working arcade game, mind you.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @Software_Goddess: Ah, the imagination of children! I remember the joy when we got a new refrigerator and I had this huge cardboard box to make believe anything I wanted. I'd set that box up on the porch, climb deep inside its mysterious darkness and pretend I was a refrigerator ready for shipping!


    So I had a warped childhood, wanna make something of it?

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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/26/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: I think we may have been neighbors. Were you ever rescued from a trash can by a short Princess Leia?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/26/09

    @Software_Goddess: No, but I was 'rescued' from a trash compactor by the police.


    But that's another story for another day...

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