Well, where to start... I suspect the beginning is as good place as any! I've been asked by a few folks to create a blog charting my "franken-cade" progress, so where did it start? Why am I doing this?
Frankly; it started by accident, as most things do, from time to time I look at the arcade machines and decide I want to build one just for me, (as I've helped with a few of them in the past for my friends) so I make a half hearted effort at getting an old (preference to non functional) cabinet, the latest such effort; a query at the video shop that was closing down led me to the guy who supplies most of the arcade machines in the Auckland area (New Zealand for those of you reading internationally), so, he called me up and told me he had TWO such cabinets that he was going to scrap!
a few $$'s later I had myself one of these cabs, and one of my friends asked me to get the other for him, so stored in my shed were two of these cabinets! The first of which has since gone to my friend, so please don't ask me if I'd be prepared to part with it... The answer was obviously yes, but as of right now; I don't have a spare!!
As to the why; well, if you're reading this, I suspect you already know the answer to that! Who doesn't want an arcade machine at home? Street Fighter II? Sure, Mortal Kombat? Why not, 1942? Oh definitely (to name but a few of the classic titles I'll be playing).
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