by JQW » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:23 am
Painting wood? Steaming decals? C'mon.
It's matte paper (which the guy can't even spell correctly.)
It's either completely paper with a wood bottom, or a wood shell with paper glued to it. No need to paint the wood. Clear monitor cover? Just transparency paper.
You could easily make one yourself.
Pac-Man is gonna be a relatively big-buck item. Why not just build a MAME machine? Of if you want something more portable, one of those half-machines where you stick a 13" monitor into a box, stick a small PC inside, and put some arcade controls on the front?
If you want to stay full-size and avoid construction, I got both my MAME cabinets for free, and you can probably get similar or pretty cheap cabs around there if you look around. It's a great starter and you have the authenticity of a real, lived-in-the-wild cabinet.
I'm going to post pictures from the local game show over on Groucho in the next couple days. There were 160 games, all on freeplay, most for sale. There was a Crystal Castle stand-up but I didn't see it plugged in (there were still some setups and more games being delivered when I left midday Saturday.)
Painting wood? Steaming decals? C'mon.
It's [i]matte paper[/i] (which the guy can't even spell correctly.)
It's either completely paper with a wood bottom, or a wood shell with paper glued to it. No need to paint the wood. Clear monitor cover? Just transparency paper.
You could easily make one yourself.
Pac-Man is gonna be a relatively big-buck item. Why not just build a MAME machine? Of if you want something more portable, one of those half-machines where you stick a 13" monitor into a box, stick a small PC inside, and put some arcade controls on the front?
If you want to stay full-size and avoid construction, I got both my MAME cabinets for free, and you can probably get similar or pretty cheap cabs around there if you look around. It's a great starter and you have the authenticity of a real, lived-in-the-wild cabinet.
I'm going to post pictures from the local game show over on Groucho in the next couple days. There were 160 games, all on freeplay, most for sale. There was a Crystal Castle stand-up but I didn't see it plugged in (there were still some setups and more games being delivered when I left midday Saturday.)