Well boys and girls, it’s come to my attention that the amount of people wanting an arcade cabinet is growing, so I figured I would tell you the what’s what about arcade cabinets.
First, you need to cover finding a cabinet that is either a prime candidate to go in your living room, or a nice project for the weekends. These things aren’t nearly as complicated as they seem and anyone with basic computer knowledge can work on one.
To start out you need to figure out what you want to play! Shooting and fighting games have similar cabinets but if you want something like a driving pod then you need to plan accordingly. Once you’ve figured out what type you want to play figure out if you want one game, or many games. You can buy an original cabinet, stick that in your living room and be fine with it, or you can buy/build a cabinet and then stick a PC or console in there and have many games.
The route I am going to go is have everything wired up to my PC and have the ability to connect it to my Xbox 360 allowing me to play certain fighting games like Dead or Alive and Street Fighter.
So to conclude this first (small) part do your research and find out what you want to get out of building or buying your cabinet, and prepare for the next part where we will cover picking your cabinet for both applications and discuss the standards of arcade machines.
