Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/10/homearcade.html
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That is what I’d like someday. Enough room for up to 4 player and a track ball. Light guns are nice too!
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It seems to me this is an original creation and not a remake of an existing product? (I’m sure they would be enormously expensive collector’s items by now otherwise.)
I can recall around fifteen years ago when amateur attempts at MAME cabinets were quite the rage, with predictable results.
https://soldmy.org/crapmame/index.html
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That was gonna be my question. “re-made”?? Ive never heard of such a cabinet before. (not that I know about this stuff, but google is failing me too)
thanks for that link. having a laugh at those DIY cabinets. When i was a kid in the early 80s this was my DIY arcade machine. (i just photoshopped this to illustrate because I have no photos)
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Yeah, but I do wonder how he got the light guns to work on the modern flatscreen?
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Seems to be something called the “AimTrak”, and appears to work on the same principle as the Wiimote (i.e. a sensor that detects a strip of LEDs).
https://www.ultimarc.com/aimtrak.html
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Ahhhhhh, that would work! Probably much better than the original gun, too!
You know what? I like it, and you’ve done a nice job humanizing the ol’ slab o’ plastic that was the Atari 2600.
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