We are setting up a game room in the house and just purchased a pool table/air hockey table. What goes great with pool and air hockey? Arcade Games!!! So my first project to document will be the creation of a MAME cabinet for our game room.
What is MAME, you ask? Well let me give you the quick run-down... It is a program that you run on a regular computer that lets you play just about every arcade game ever made. Just check out the main website if you want some more specifics :)
http://mamedev.org/
What I am going to do is take this regular computer that is running MAME and put it into an upright arcade game cabinet so it looks just like an authentic arcade game!
I was originally going to build a cabinet from scratch, but I liked the idea better of taking an old abandoned cabinet and breathing some new life into it. So thats where I am at right now... calling around and emailing every Amusement company in the Pittsburgh and Johnstown areas looking for an empty cabinet.
I have been looking for one for about a month, and I am actually surprised at the difficulty that I am having. I have found two places that have them, but the prices are a little steeper that I had planned... $130.00-$350.00 so far. I looked around on the net beforehand and people said that you can usually pick up an empty cabinet for under $50 and often times free... so I'm going to keep looking...
Well thats all for now... I will return when I have chased down a cabinet and I will be sure to bring some pictures!!!
