Cabinet Desecration: Post Links to Bad MAME Projects

[r0b]

He's got a Tron cabinet for sale also...l00ks like he took a movie poster and tacked it to the sides and called it side art...

Heh, it's not even a Tron cab, it's a Gorf cab painted black.

Yes, you are correct!  The cabinet shapes are similar...

[r0b]

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/gms/1847716472.html

Scroll all the way to the bottom for the cocktail Atari 5200...I'm not sure if that is an original cocktail or not - it looks like a home brew...

[bradx]

this was my first attempt, a gutted atari dig dug/centipede style cab:

and this is my second and most recent:

actually spent a few bucks on the frogger art!

i think both of mine are pretty tasteful, if more people did this at a minimum and spent a few minutes planning before diving in, MAME wouldnt have such a bad name. 

this was my first mame test rig when i was learning how to hook up the buttons and joysticks:


eventually i built a pair of these, and by then i realized there was no way to duplicate the feel of an actual arcade game without building or modifying an actual arcade game.  these were hooked up to a laptop and then into a big screen TV and could be played sitting on the couch:


i didnt do anything pretty, but i took my time and did my research and didnt go off half cocked.  its not rocket science.