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The ultimate gaming cabinet

ADJBADJB
edited February 2013 in Chit chat
Does it get any better? - the perfect design IMHO

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/beer_arcade_game/
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  • fogfog
    edited February 2013
    I was thinking of making one, but as minimal skeleton.. e.g. tube metal or maybe out of wood, but not with the crazy big foot print.. the issue I thought of though was rotating the monitor , on like a swivel type thing.. as for say 1942 etc.. play better when you turn the monitor on it's side.

    I have an x-arcade joystick and an old PC I could use , that'd be good enough for old arcade games.. but monitor wise, I figured get a cheapo TFT tv and use the vga :)
  • ADJBADJB
    edited February 2013
    The only bit of the design I care about is the beer dispensing bit - the rest is easy.
  • WookieeWookiee
    edited February 2013
    lol class
  • fogfog
    edited February 2013
    ADJB wrote: »
    The only bit of the design I care about is the beer dispensing bit - the rest is easy.

    whats wrong with a can :) . bit like the US spending money on a space pen, and the Russians spent zero on their wonderful pencil
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited February 2013
    fog wrote: »
    whats wrong with a can :) . bit like the US spending money on a space pen, and the Russians spent zero on their wonderful pencil

    Sorry, but that's just a persistent urban myth:

    http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

    Anyway, I suppose this is fine for the lager/keg beer drinkers amongst us, but what if you're a real ale drinker? I want to see a cabinet with handpumps. :smile:
  • ADJBADJB
    edited February 2013
    Matt_B wrote: »
    Sorry, but that's just a persistent urban myth:

    http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

    Anyway, I suppose this is fine for the lager/keg beer drinkers amongst us, but what if you're a real ale drinker? I want to see a cabinet with handpumps. :smile:

    I suppose you could do a one armed bandit design with handpumps :)
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2013
    ADJB wrote: »
    Does it get any better? - the perfect design IMHO

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/beer_arcade_game/

    Trust me its even better if you can have a beautiful woman bring the beer to you, especially if she is the one who brought the arcade machine for you. [/brag]
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2013
    fog wrote: »
    I was thinking of making one, but as minimal skeleton.. e.g. tube metal or maybe out of wood, but not with the crazy big foot print.. the issue I thought of though was rotating the monitor , on like a swivel type thing.. as for say 1942 etc.. play better when you turn the monitor on it's side.

    I have an x-arcade joystick and an old PC I could use , that'd be good enough for old arcade games.. but monitor wise, I figured get a cheapo TFT tv and use the vga :)

    Electrocoin made a Xenon cabinet in which the monitor was housed in a rotatable disk behind the screen bezel. To swivel the monitor you just removed the locking bolt and rotated it one way or t-other.
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