Last week I was watching the nightly news when some piece came on about how this guy in Houston owns the oldest video game arcade ever made (Space Defenders I believe it is called). It evidently predates even Pong.
This got the old childhood desires for wanting to own an arcade going and I started looking into acquiring one for myself. After doing more research, it seems that now adays it is more popular to build a MAME arcade that plays a ton of different games than the old school Jamma Arcade types for home use. Still, I'm not the best person at woodworking and would rather not have to build one from scratch.
Right now I'm in the search for a good quality arcade cabinet. Preferably one that housed one of the "more recent" games (i.e. that use multiple buttons rather than the Galaga or Pacman types that only have a joystick and maybe one button). I guess ultimately it doesn't matter as I could try to convert it.
I live in Southeast Houston near Clearlake, but haven't had much luck in my search. I came close to buying an old ESWAT machine this past weekend only to find someone had purchased it the day before.
Does anybody have any suggestions about where I could potentially get myself an arcade cabinet? No luck on Ebay and limited success on Craigslist so far.
If you're wanting to get rid of an old machine, by all means send me a PM and maybe we can work something out!
...as an aside, anybody ever build one from scratch?
This got the old childhood desires for wanting to own an arcade going and I started looking into acquiring one for myself. After doing more research, it seems that now adays it is more popular to build a MAME arcade that plays a ton of different games than the old school Jamma Arcade types for home use. Still, I'm not the best person at woodworking and would rather not have to build one from scratch.
Right now I'm in the search for a good quality arcade cabinet. Preferably one that housed one of the "more recent" games (i.e. that use multiple buttons rather than the Galaga or Pacman types that only have a joystick and maybe one button). I guess ultimately it doesn't matter as I could try to convert it.
I live in Southeast Houston near Clearlake, but haven't had much luck in my search. I came close to buying an old ESWAT machine this past weekend only to find someone had purchased it the day before.
Does anybody have any suggestions about where I could potentially get myself an arcade cabinet? No luck on Ebay and limited success on Craigslist so far.
If you're wanting to get rid of an old machine, by all means send me a PM and maybe we can work something out!
...as an aside, anybody ever build one from scratch?
