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Definitely a Pac-Man arcade machine.

I loved the old moving cabinet from the Afterburner game. Nothing like suddenly moving the stick to the side only to get thrown out of the cabinet and out of the door of the arcade.

Space Invaders!


Does pinball count?

TheComet

Without any doubt, Panic Park by Namco. Most fun 2 player arcade-experience ever.

I have a generic stand-up Jamma cabinet but it only has 3 buttons for each player (2 players) so some game boards wouldn't be playable in it.

What I would really like is a sit down Star Wars cabinet. The only problem is that they are pretty rare now and anyone who has one would never sell it - certainly not at an affordable price.

Time Crisis 3 hands down!

If that counts lol.

Black Tiger for me... I was always late for typing class in High School because of that game (but only after I learned how to type... I didn't need to learn business forms).



But hey... why not just get the all in one machine?

http://www.xgaming.com/htm/cabinet.shtml

Aliens extermination its cool

I'm undecided between Black Tiger (like Grog, a classic game that ate many a lunch break), and Bubble Bobble. Probably Bubble Bobble as the re-sale on that would be better I think.

I have all the bits to make a mini-MAME cabinet, Bubble Bobble themed, so I'm half-way there, just gotta build the damn thing. I went for BB because there was a lot of BB stuff online for it, stickers, marques, instruction stickers. It'll look incredible when it's done.

Galaga would be a top choice for me; the full Afterburner cabinet would also be great!

@ Van B:

Cool. Nice to see another Black Tiger fan.

Bubble Bobble is a cool game too and would look great on a mini-Mame Cabinet. Post some pictures of it when you get it done.

I'd probably want one from the "golden age" like Galaga or Ms. Pac Man, but I have a lot of good memories playing Ghosts n Goblins too.

I did build a MAME cab about 5 years ago, and it gives me my nostalgia fix whenever I feel the urge.

Do you have any plans on how you put that together and what bits you need Mark? I wouldn't mind taking on a challenge like that.

Wow that's nice! I did want to make one in Jr. High but my shop teacher talked me out of it as being too big of a project. I was going to put my Colecovision in it.

Police: 911. One of the best on rails shooters because of the interactivity. Also any of the Time Crisis Games.

I would love to have an arcade cabinet for any of the Golden Axe games, and particularly Golden Axe- revenge of Death Adder. The golden axe games were ripe with usability on an arcade stick.

Mark, I'd also like to see any plans you have for that cabinet and how you wired everything. I've got a computer sitting with every arcade game you can think of with a cool frontend displaying it all, but I'm missing the cabinet portion.

Only if its a table-top

Sure, I'll post everything I have on building the cab. Just give me a day or so, because it's all stored on an old PC.

It took me about 6 weeks of working in my spare time to build it. I pretty much never used a power tool before, so if I can do it, anyone can do it. Just remember to measure twice, cut once.

It was a SERIOUSLY FUN project, don't get me started or I'll never shut up about it. But very satisfying, nothing like playing all those old games the way they were meant to be played.

@bond1 - I'm jealous! I was thinking about getting a 4-player cabinet but it might be too large. Yours looks perfect!

@bond1- I'd also like to attempt to craft something such as that. I may alter your designs a little, as I want to create something that nobody has made (or maybe they have, I dunno haha) I want to create a Playstation One arcade machine (As a child, I really got into gaming on the Super Nintendo and the PS1 as the older consoles never appealed to me such as the NES and others such as that) I will just modify your schematics to fit the television screen that I have and also to fit in the controller buttons. I believe this would be a really fun project

A lot of people rely on old XBoxes to make cabinets, stick MAME on there and you have a very cheap option that handles MAME handsomly.

Be warned though! - good joysticks can be expensive, for all the buttons I wanted, plus a jamma stick and the USB controller hardware cost about £60 - I think that hardware supports 2 sticks so really it could cost £80 just for joysticks on a PC based cabinet. Personally I'm more interested in Bubble Bobble, Black Tiger, Double Dragon sort of era, so I'm using an old laptop with a broken screen that I got for free. I'm gonna have it slide out on a little drawer, should be perfect as that gives access to everything, keyboard, mousepad, DVD. When I get a bigger place, I might make another cabinet, but full size for 2 players - the mini cabinet is for 1 player plus 1 external USB joystick.

I've been planning and procrastinating this for years, seeing bonds machine standing there all proud and retro makes me want it even more .

I was thinking doing one Mame cabinet with Parodius games.

Hey guys, I've attached a zip file with the plans I used when building my cab. Note that I didn't follow them exactly, and you'll probably want to alter them a bit to suit your needs.

For example I wanted an oversize control panel so two people could stand comfortably side by side for those fighting games, etc. So I altered the plans to make a "shelf" for my control panel to sit on.

Also, these plans are for a 25" monitor. These are hard to come by these days, so you'll probably want to alter the width a bit to fit a 27" monitor.

I bought my controls from Ultimarc: http://www.ultimarc.com/. Commercial grade build quality, and manufactured specifically for building MAME cabs, very easy to set up. Super fast shipping, the guy who runs the site is great.

What we all should do is make one that actually takes quarters and turn it into not a Mame arcade cabinet but a cabinet to put all of our Darkbasic created games on. It'll start up with a menu program to select which game the user wants to play.

Wouldn't that be cool at our local pizza joint?

Thank you bond, hopefully sometime in the near future I can show off my own arcade machine

One of those.

R-type delta was the best sidescroller spaceship shooter i have ever played. Am tempted to buy the newer one on Xbox live arcade but i wonder whether itll be good or not ^^

Gauntlet. I like Gauntlet.