http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/tiny-cocktail-arcade-build.html Dang, I wish I had the time, inclination, and talent to make this. The guy sold it on Ebay and the final price was $4000. Crazy!
Thing is, some cocktail games are actually worth more without being made into a MAME cab. Not only are they typically rarer than their stand-up counterparts, they're more sought after for people with a lack of space. Regardless, it's a waste of a cab. If I'm gonna play a game on MAME, I'd rather do it on a PC. Leave the arcade cabs as-is, because a dedicated cab looks infinitely better than some MAME abomination.
I agree that you would be dumb to convert an actual cocktail cab into a MAME machine, but it looks like the guy built that mini cocktail cabinet from scratch, using some cheapo particleboard wood and an eee PC. A real cabinet is fast becoming a collector's item. In a few decades, they will be worth a lot. The problem is finding the room to store them all, if you really want to invest in such a thing.
X-Box 360 modded to look like an Atari 2600. How to build a cabinet for a MAME PC. One badass MAME cabinet.
Yup, I have the link to the MAME cabinet one. Good stuff. Thing is, a MAME machine is large and unwieldy. I'd prefer it to be more compact.
Oh, well, if it's a custom cocktail, then MAME away. I just see it so often where people take existing arcade games and convert them to MAME cabs, and it makes me cry every time...not literally of course (well, maybe a bit), but you know what I mean.
