Retro gaming

[big_treacle]

For all you oldskool types - a friend of mine recently set up this company making modern table top arcade machines: a take on those old glass topped arcade machines but for people with flash designer houses and too much money (they're not exactly cheap!!!). They're PC based and include arcade emulation for oldskool games but you can obviously then run new stuff....
www.surface-tension.net/

He's also doing a retro gaming blog...
www.arcade-lounge.co.uk/

[rebelstar]

Nice - if a bit pricey!

I've been after an upright cabinet for some time - if possible the X-Arcade one as I have one of their joysticks and it's very well made. Unfortunately I've not found a UK distributor for them

I did try to build my own once but I'm clearly not as talented as your friend with his coffee tables!

[GT2man-2]

Very nice.. but HOW MUCH !!!!

A good MAME cab can be bought for about £400

[ChriX]

Very nice indeed.

I recently built my own upright mame cabinet, came to nearly £400.

[Digby]

They look very nice those tables

I picked this up a year or two ago.This is a mate having a test just after
we got it from the car into my kitchen.



It only runs the basic pacman/defender/asteroids style of games though
due to the PC being rather old.
I'm no expert though so i would never try making one i doubt, this was all done.
It has an original type arcade screen (not a monitor) so despite it adding some
authenticity, it limits the upgrade in terms of graphics card and resolution etc
i believe.

Some of them modern mame type cabinets i have seen people make run almost anything
it seems, including neo geo/n64 emulators, mp3's etc etc.

Edited by Digby on Friday 24th November 18:20

[GT2MAN-2]

I bought a cabinet like yours.

Being a computer geek I installed a PC with fast processor, ArcageVGA card and large hard drive, and now I play pretty much 99% of all arcade games made, as well as N64 / SNES / Megadrive / NES games. The ArcadeVGA is good for displaying games in their native resolution (200x300 for example) rather than scaling games into your 800x600 desktop res or whatever.. I think it'll talk to your monitor without pro lems.

It's not that difficult to do once you get your head around it and can be a fun project.

Here is EVERYTHING you needed to know (and more) for any budding cabinet gamer

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index

Edited by GT2MAN-2 on Friday 24th November 19:47

[Digby]

I'm actually ok with building PC's etc, i just never really tried to get
my head around all the mame versions, the roms, the boot up commands, the emus
and all that stuff so never bothered.Lazy i know

Ta for the link though, i may have to have another dabble at some point!

[ThePassenger]

I'm not sure if it's currently 'retro' but I'd love either an R360 or Daytona sit down 'pod' cabinet... I keep looking but the Daytona is as rare as anything and seems to go for £10k

[Digby]

ThePassenger said:

I'm not sure if it's currently 'retro' but I'd love either an R360 or Daytona sit down 'pod' cabinet... I keep looking but the Daytona is as rare as anything and seems to go for £10k

You need a lottery win and a day at www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines.html Sir
Click on driving games, there are quite a few pages of such things.

Edited by Digby on Friday 24th November 23:54

[ThePassenger]

Digby said:

ThePassenger said:

I'm not sure if it's currently 'retro' but I'd love either an R360 or Daytona sit down 'pod' cabinet... I keep looking but the Daytona is as rare as anything and seems to go for £10k

You need a lottery win and a day at www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines.html Sir
Click on driving games, there are quite a few pages of such things.

Woo Hoo! They have several instock *checks purse* I wonder if they'd accept some lint and a desecrated moth as down payment?

[GT2man-2]

Well, if you want a stand-up Daytona.. (and 4 other uprights) for £500

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Arcade-Machines

Due to their immense size, some sit-downs don't fetch that much money.

Here's a Daytona sit-down for just £600

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Daytona-sit-dow