[CABINET] Cocktail Arcade Classics is evolving :D

[Draco1962]

Very nice! Can't wait to get started/finished with my own project!

[tthurman]

This build just keeps getting better, and those buttons put it over the top!

Good work

[helpman]

You know, this is hard to explain if you never tried to build your own cabinet but... before the cabinet, all my attention was put on playing those games I remember from years ago, but now...

well, the "playing games" is still there, but on the second row, if you know what I mean. What I find more entertaining right now is finding what else can I do TO the cabinet. Adding lights, light controllers, other programs that could be useful, other games that could be great to play on a cabinet... and the job is never done, I keep thinking about what else can I do

[stigzler]

the job is never done, I keep thinking about what else can I do

Amen.

[helpman]

My wife was tired of watching me playing with the greengold as it was near the living room door and she wasn't able to hear the tv... so we moved it to another room...
I live on an old house, and almost everything has weird measures, not standard. So my doors are 70cm wide. Same as the greengold.

Moving the cabinet involved building a small wheel board to carry them (that collapsed under the weight so it was useless and I had to push the cabinet all it's way), remove both doors (living room and room) struggle to make it pass through the living room, remove a wall cabinet from the other room and... getting stuck on the other room's door, as it was NOT 70cm wide. Just a bit smaller...

It was a though decision, but finally I had to sand off 3-4 mm on each door's frame side with sandpaper until I made it wide enough, then push and pull to make the cabinet go trough the door, and... get stuck again as there was not enough place to push it completely inside the room. So I had to pull it off my way again to the corridor, remove *another* wall cabinet, even bigger than the other one, push it again and finally place it in his actual place.

Then it was time to hang the bigger wall cabinet, fill it with all the books and games I had scattered around, fix the doors in place... and still I need to apply varnish to the door frame I sandusted! phew!

[tthurman]

That is dedication there man!

You got a sweet looking game room, love the stool!

[stigzler]

Mancave.

[helpman]

soon, our plan is to buy some bookcases, place them on the living room, move all our books there and place all my retro games collection on that room's shelves.

a couple game&watch, gameboy, gameboycolor, gameboy advance sp, ds, 3ds, psp1000, nes, n64, n64 pikachu, playstation, psone, ps2, master system 2, genesis... and some board games from the 80s too and an old pong-style console from 1977.

it'll be completed with some old collectibles too, involving some sesame street characters (the count, kermit, cookie monster...), manga/anime figures, a furby baby, furby and a new furby (not the newest one, I mean the one that look like a mogwai), a toy model of the uss enterprise (the newest model from the new movies)...

...and as the boy grew up, a niiiiiice nespresso coffe machine too ;D

btw, the stools (I have 2)... I bought them directly from a pub