macdlsa #1 Posted June 17, 2010 (edited) Mac's Arcade ... in other words: the part of my garage I converted into "small tavern / gaming room”. The place has a fairly small area (3x3 m) but I designed and prepared a series of cabinets, shelves and other things to create a themed environment... Begin to say the place is newly built (May 2009), as well as all the building and consequently its four apartments; one of them is OBVIOUSLY mine… oh, well,hehe: the apartment is rather monopolized by my TWO women (my wife and our daughter) while the basement is exclusively mine! Overseeing, for what I compete, the realization of the electrical system , I decided to put a good number of local outlets, TV and network which is connected to my cable modem / router home, so I can also have an Internet Connection (wi-fi did not work up to down there...). Unfortunately the plumber denied me the possibility of having a heating element connected to the boiler in the house, due to the really exaggerated distance that separates garage (located in the basement) from the apartment (1st floor)! In any case I can rely on a small stove fuel, "inherited" from my previous garage, which does not take much but at least avoids furniture, appliances and, last but not least, guest’s skin to freeze, raising in about two hours the internal temperature of 5-8 C degrees compared to the rest of the garage... SO, here it is ! What it was just before and,at the bottom right, just after the move... As for my previous "Gameroom" (my old garage, visible link http://picasaweb.google.com/macdlsa/MacDLSAGameRoom # along with photos of the construction of my cruiser Dragon's Lair - replication and other "little things"...) I decided to paint all the basement with a not too "heated" yellow hue. Then I applied the "skirting" of the same type that I made before for the apartment (cherry wood). And here is the mini game room inaugurated with my two "big" cabs: ... Space Ace - EURO on DLcab and "Willow" on MAMEcab! Testing positive ! And the “expert” of my family for the occasion has preferred a version of Space Ace in the USA "Enhanced" release . Other pictures of the Mac's Arcade (not so good iPhone quality...) Mac's COLLECTION Sears-Telegames PONG, NTSC, 1975 (1 game) GAMATIC 4 variations, PAL, 1978, "clone" of Pong with 4 games Atari VCS, PAL, "Woody - LightSixer", 1982, 4 joysticks (2 of the “Woody” and 2 of the "Vader"), 2 Atari Paddle, 1 Atari Video Touch Pad (included in the "Star Raiders"pack, a Track & Field "dedicated" controller, about 120 (today...) cartridges Mattel Intellivision, PAL, 1983, 5 games Atari 7800, PAL, 1984, only the built-in game (Asteroids) MSX Toshiba HX-20, PAL, 1985, 7 games Commodore Amiga 500, PAL, 1988, about 150 games Sega MegaDrive (Genesis), PAL, 1992, 4 games Nintendo SNES, PAL (modified PAL/NTSC, 50/60Hz), 1993, 3 games Sony PlayStation (SCPH 7002), PAL, 1996, 200 games Sega Saturn , PAL, 1997, 6 games Sony Playstation 2 "Fat", PAL, 1999, 6 games Microsoft Xbox, PAL, 2000, 1 game Commodore C=64 DTV, PAL, 2002, 30 preloaded games Microsoft Xbox 360, PAL 2005, 2 games MAME cabinet, 199x (?) - 2006 (EX Jamma cab) with 21” VGA CRT monitor, 2-player control panel, about 3000 games + emulator Daphne, 18 games Dragon's Lair U.S. (Cinematronics) REPRO cabinet, 2006, with OFFICIAL Daphne emulator, 4 games (+ various USA and Euro variants...) Bartop Multi-Emulator "RH" cabinet, 2010, 19" VGA LCD display, dual ControlPanel (separate and adjustable for ambidextrous / left-handed players) WIP: "Slim" Multi-Emulators cabinet… project is, of course, TOPSECRET, ‘cause I think it could (and SHOULD) be very interesting for many people (already have 2 orders from friends who have seen the drawings…) ! ... UPDATE 2010-05-23 A new TV for my consoles: Hitachi, CRT, 29" (4:3) ! HUUUUGE !!! And ... FOR FREE ! Edited June 17, 2010 by macdlsa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nofrills100 #2 Posted June 18, 2010 lots of fun to be had in there! Was the shape of the doorway intentional? - because it totally looks like a feature you'd find in an old video game arcade or milk bar. cool cool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #3 Posted June 18, 2010 Thnx Tom ! The doorway ? It was not intentional... But someone already says that looks like the shape of a Mario's mushroom ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nofrills100 #4 Posted June 18, 2010 Thnx Tom ! The doorway ? It was not intentional... But someone already says that looks like the shape of a Mario's mushroom ! haha - yeah the mushroom! I think you need to incorporate it into a mario mural on one side of the doorway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #5 Posted June 18, 2010 Argh ! I hope to fill all the walls with cartridge boxes that there will be no more space left for anything else ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #6 Posted July 2, 2010 UPDATE 02 - 07 - 2010 Other carts for my collection... ... all for less than 40€, shipping included (eBay) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #7 Posted July 13, 2010 Weekly arrival from the same source where nofrills got his minty mangià Sparker Gardon - Pirate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nofrills100 #8 Posted July 13, 2010 nice! did it cost you €20 also Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #9 Posted July 13, 2010 Hehe, yep ! He shipped me that CIB Sparker Gardon, a loose Motorodeo (both PAL) and two 84' Atari catalogs... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #10 Posted July 18, 2010 Update ONLY loose carts here... The one withOUT label is Pepsi Invaders Of course colors are "wrong", as my VCS is PAL and all those carts are NTSC... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #11 Posted August 14, 2010 My new cab is alive ! It came from an idea born in a awake night while I was watching the true sci-fi movie "2001 : A Space Odyssey"... WIP at http://picasaweb.google.com/macdlsa/MacSMONOLITHMultiEmulatorArcadeCabinet# The cab is still in a "Beta" state, 'cause it lacks of a good and well-configured FrontEnd, the marquee artwork and the trackball (that will be mounted right in the center of the ControlPanel, where there's that "big" hole...) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VectorGamer #12 Posted August 15, 2010 It seems like if you pushed up on the joystick it would tip backwards? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #13 Posted August 15, 2010 It seems like if you pushed up on the joystick it would tip backwards? ??? Some clips... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macdlsa #14 Posted December 10, 2013 It's been a long time... So, better update .It is always a little collection, but there's still something interesting ! ... and my "jewel" : Sears Pong autographed by Nolan "the father" Bushell ! [ here in the retrogaming-sector of teh hugest italian videogames show "Games Week 2013" in Milan ] And here is hooked up to my livingroom TV... but my daughter ( 6 yo ) still prefer playin' Space Invaders and Ms.Pac-Man on our VCS ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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