I had always been inspired by the folks who had taken the plunge and built their own Arcade machine. Although one would be a fitting addition to my 80% complete Living Room/Home Entertainment Centre area, the idea of doing any sort of wood work/carpentry in building the cabinet itself always seemed like Mission Impossible. This difficulty and my total lack of DIY skills had deterred me from embarking on such a project one too many times in the past.
However after seeing some of the inspired examples at BYOAC of how this CAN work, I decided to bite the bullet and just, go for it.
To simply throw money at this ideal and BUY a ready-made Arcade Cabinet would cost me over a Grand, so the only way I could achieve this was to BUILD!
In order to run the arcade games I would need to emulate. This would be easy to execute as I was already familiar with MAME.
MAME (an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a computer software program for personal computers. The purpose of MAME is to faithfully and precisely emulate as many arcade games as possible, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. Donkey Kong, Galaga, Ms Pacman, Streetfighter 2 - all the classics are there and FULLY playable!!
So what needed to begin my Arcade project would be a dedicated PC fast enough to run MAME and some sort of control panel (keyboard, mouse and gamepad just don’t cut it) to play the arcade games in somewhat of an authentic fashion. My first job would be to setup the equipment, get it fully operation in working order and build the cabinet around it.
Oh well.. to e-bay I go!
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