A lot of my Retromash branding involves the off-white/cream which was used a lot in the 80s in things like the NES, SNES, GameBoy, Raleigh Vektar and the Tomytronic 3D Thundering Turbos to name but a few. This is the bit I love, but also the bit I could seriously spend months on trying to perfect. So that’s what I want the shape to be, but the next step is to think about how I want to decorate the machine. I just need one measurement to get me started, such as the overall height, from which I can then work out the rest, but I’m hoping I can get that from some kind person on an arcade forum. What I’m now planning on doing is using the silhouette and some simple maths to work out all the dimensions and angles myself. I was hoping to go up to the amazing Arcade Club UK a couple of months ago to see one in the flesh and measure but we had to cancel. I preferred these two and because Joust is the more famous of the games I’ve decided that I’m going to base my design on the Joust cab. Joust and Moon Patrol are supposedly almost identical with only about an inch or two difference in the width I believe. The ones that jumped out to me are Joust and Moon Patrol. The Williams ones are awesome though and really evoke that classic 80s arcade style to me. I do think the Nintendo arcade cabinets have a certain charm but that wasn’t the style I wanted to replicate personally, and the Midway ones didn’t really tickle my fancy. There’s also the Nintendo cabinets with their own unique style.
I came across these fantastic silhouettes of arcade cabinets which really show the amount of variety between different games and different manufacturers.
I’d been wondering what old cabinet style I would like to replicate. I’m not saying mine is going to be an amazing thing of beauty but I wanted to put some thought into exactly what style and design I wanted. Some people often try to cram too many controls or gadgets into their machines or make them too boxy etc.
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Plus I’m quite picky over how the cabinet will look, and I don’t really like all the MAME cabinets that you see out there. But it was still quite expensive and I wouldn’t have had the same satisfaction that I know I’m going to get after building my own cabinet. I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there, instead of attempting to build one myself. I saw a MAME cabinet on eBay a few months and I very nearly bought it.
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