{"id":5,"date":"2010-11-20T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.100\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2021-12-31T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:03:40","slug":"home-cocktail-arcade-cabinet-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/20\/home-cocktail-arcade-cabinet-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Cocktail Arcade Cabinet – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the late 1970’s, I spent a lot of time and money playing Space Invaders in a little arcade at Holland Village in Singapore.\u00a0 In 2009, I wanted to relive those days by building a MAME arcade cabinet, and after a lot of researching the net for ideas, commenced building.<\/p>\n

I chose a cocktail style cabinet over a normal stand up as that was mostly what I played and enjoyed in those early days.\u00a0 A lot of the style and design was borrowed from a website I found here at The Cocktail Lounge<\/a>. Before starting I needed to gather a few bits and pieces, especially the monitor, to ensure it would fit with the dimensions I had chosen.<\/p>\n

I managed to come across a Compaq V720 monitor and my boss had an old Intel PIII PC he was selling at the time. This PIII would run the majority of the those older 1970 & 1980 games which would be fine for a guy of my vintage.\u00a0 With the monitor dimensions checked against the plans from Ian’s Cocktail Lounge website, I set about putting together the cabinet.<\/p>\n

\"And
And so it was born.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cut out for the power switch and input panel. Also on the panel will be a boot button and network connector.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Three
Three holes for speakers & a fan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the time these pictures were taken, I had already bought the joysticks, buttons and keyboard controller from OzStick<\/a>.\u00a0 The speakers had been chosen and bought, and all the other accessories needed to make the cut outs necessary at the woodworking stage.<\/p>\n

\"Controller
Controller mounts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cutouts
Cut outs underneath for wiring joysticks and buttons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I needed to make some very sturdy legs for the cabinet, as it was starting to weight a lot, and with the monitor in the box, needed two people to lift the sucker.\u00a0 I don’t own a welder, so I thought I would seek out a welding shop to make the legs for me.\u00a0 I drew up a design and the shop told me $200.\u00a0 We’re talking a couple bits of square tube and some bolts.\u00a0 Bah, I decided to do it myself.\u00a0 I bought the tubing and borrowed a welder from a mate, and after a couple of test runs, was ready to go.<\/p>\n

\"Not
Not bad for a guy who hasn’t welded since the 90’s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Test
Test fit the legs and slap some undercoat on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To make the legs look good before painting, I used auto body filler to smooth out the welding and grinding marks.\u00a0 They actually came up quite a bit better that I thought they would.<\/p>\n

\"Finally
Finally starting to look good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted black gloss for the outside, but I also wanted the inside to pop as well, so I found some old yellow paint in the shed.<\/p>\n

Part 2 will detail the component fit out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the late 1970’s, I spent a lot of time and money playing Space Invaders in a little arcade at Holland Village in Singapore.\u00a0 In 2009, I wanted to relive those days by building a MAME arcade cabinet, and after a lot of researching the net for ideas, commenced building. I chose a cocktail style … Continue reading “Home Cocktail Arcade Cabinet – Part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,5,4,7,8],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade-cabinet","tag-arcade","tag-cabinet","tag-cocktail","tag-hardware","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}