Do I Buy An Arcade Cabinet?

While trying to do anything but revise i somehow got onto ebay looking at arcade cabs and for about £200 or so i could get an arcade cabinet and a board with a few hundred games from the ninties(a lot of them are pretty good as well).

Was thinking it could make an awsome addition to the living room/my room next year, or am I being stupid and just going to waste my money?

um...whats an arcade cabinet? *hangs head in shame*
but it does sound pretty cool...so i like...but £200... thats my only issue

This is an arcade cabinet

but the one i would get is not nearly as fancy as that one

oh ok...like a classic arcade machine? hehe

a skatepark i used to go to had a pac man one lol!

anyhow....um...i dunno....sorry

for the love of god buy it now!

Make your own, it can be a summer project for you.

Realistically, how often would you play it and how long do you think it'd take for the novelty to wear off? Hardly something you can just put in the corner and forget about, it's a massive cabinet!

I was thinking of making one as well, but if you buy a second hand cab its only like £50 its the big games PCBs which are expensive. mabie i could make one of them instead!

How can you make one?

im not sure but ill bet google has the answer

Yes.

Some quick reading with no depth and/or understanding gave me the impression that you can create one using an old PC. Which would mean emulator goodness. But I'm sure it's not easy.

i had a look at doing something like that before but it worked out to be wayyy to much hastle and probably more expensive than getting a pre-build 2nd hand one

SiebenAuf wrote:

for the love of god buy it now!

i reiterate ...

Hey, Matt it's gonna be harder enough to keep you out the house anyway, why would we want to add another feature which you love?
Anyway i say it's alot of money and where would you put it after the novelty rub off.

well matt seems to like a seperate section for polls which is maddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so what you expect?

Well its completely up 2 you og course but i you have the money and think you will use it then go for it. However i wouldn't myslef it would just give me another reason to stay in my room.

Sally wrote:Well its completely up to you of course but if you have the money and think you will use it then go for it. However i wouldn't myslef it would just give me another reason to stay in my room.

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well, as you have fixed it...have you read it? lol

Pipboy_3000 wrote:

Sally wrote:Well its completely up to you of course but if you have the money and think you will use it then go for it. However i wouldn't myself it would just give me another reason to stay in my room.

fixed

NOW fixed. (I'm not a complete grammar Nazi and have allowed the use of the lower-case i).

ah damn i diddnt notice that myself, and i thought id let the little i slip

Bouch wrote:Hey, Matt it's gonna be harder enough to keep you out the house anyway, why would we want to add another feature which you love?
Anyway i say it's alot of money and where would you put it after the novelty rub off.

What, you don't want me in your house all the time?

Fry wrote:well matt seems to like a seperate section for polls which is maddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so what you expect?

And I don't like all of this "talking behind my back" ...

do it stef, its something at least both you and me would play, although wouldnt it be cheaper just to download a MAIM emu for your pc?

SiebenAuf wrote:

And I don't like all of this "talking behind my back" ...

How are we talking behind your back, we're posting on your forum don't forget!!!!

wouldnt u rather spend that money on a gambler, coz then ud get the money bac! or get both lol!