Best Emulator for 70s / 80s games

[omniflow]

Hi,

I'm thinking of building an arcade cabinet based around an emulator. The games I am interested in are:

Space Invaders (original and the one after that)
Pacman
Scramble
Defender

I'd like Battlezone too, but I think the controls would be a challenge.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to which emulator I use.

Thanks

[omniflow]

Done some more digging and I think you're right.

Has anyone done an arcade cabinet build, or will I be better off in the Computers & Gadgets sub forum?

[omniflow]

Yeah - thanks for the feedback - I do get it.

It would go in the Garage next to my Twilight Zone Pinball Table. If I do it, and it's by no means a done deal, it would be mostly for the fun of doing it. It would probably only be used 3 or 4 times a year, and I think most of the fun would be trying to put something together than can be tweaked to allow various games to be played "arcade style" with very differing control requirements - e.g. trackball for missile command, twin 2 way joysticks with fire button for battlezone, etc. etc.

Looking at the price of some of these components, it might be a bit pricey, but I think I will at least spec one out and then decide whether or not to go ahead with it.