This is a game cabinet that I built several years ago (1999-ish).
My idea was to combine a game cabinet with a home entertainment center. In that day, I'd never even heard of someone having an MP3 jukebox in their home.
The "monitor" was a 25" TV hooked up via S-Video. The TV sat in a "cradle" which settled back at an angle for gaming, but could be locked in an upright position for TV viewing.
It featured:
- 48 buttons
- 3 joysticks
- Arkanoid spinner
- Trackball
- two 45GB hard drives (seemed crazy in that day; but, I was starting to rip MP3s)
- 486 processor
- 8 MB RAM
The whole thing was on castors, and was stable on carpet without locking the wheels. The arrangement wouldn't have been so graceful on a hardwood floor.
I sold it several years ago when our remodeling project grew a life of its own... the time to build version 2.0 is just about here.
