Has anyone here built an arcade cabinet? I'm thinking of building one up. Yesterday, I ordered the X-Arcade Tankstick with trackball ($50 OFF: X-Arcade Tankstick + Trackball: USB Included | Xgaming X-Arcade). For those who prefer console to PC gaming, X-Arcade offers adapters to use their joystick/trackball panel with most consoles (except the most recent generation Xbox and PS4). Then I started looking at cabinet kits from Rec Room Masters (Premium XL Arcade Cabinet For The X-Arcade Tankstick | Back Lit Header Xtension Arcade Cabinet at RecRoom Masters). I like the idea of a cabinet kit as it takes a modern LCD monitor (VESA mount) and computer, and you drop in the X-Arcade Tankstick and have an arcade machine! Now I know there are some people who stripped out old cabinets and made custom control panels, but I don't have the woodworking skills to do things like that. Though I do wish the X-Arcade had a spinner control option for paddle-based games like Tempest or Arkanoid...
Never dreamed of opening a video game arcade as a business, though I've read they're beginning to make a comeback. Throughout the 1990s-2000s it seemed most of them closed down, and I only saw 1-2 machines in pizza parlors or movie theaters, a far cry from the heyday in the 1980s when arcades had dozens - if not hundreds - of machines. But having unlimited games to play for free, well that was a dream I've had for a while...