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| whoozwah | Friday, 3. July 2009, 21:38 |
Geek of the Week
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For those of you who don't know, I built an arcade machine some time ago. I called it the Quad Laser which was inspired by the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Here are a few pics:   I love the thing. It took me 2 months to build and approximately 500 bucks in parts not counting the TV. However, if you notice, it is not a true cabinet. It's of my own design which is mainly to accomodate that big ass fucking television set which I have hooked up to it. This also serves as the monitor for my N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, xbox and PS2. I love vertical shmups. Dodonpachi, Armed Police Batrider, Mushihimesama etc etc. I also love classic games like frogger, galaga, donkey kong, pac man (which also all happen to be played on a vertically oriented monitor). The television I use for the Quad Laser is wonderful for console games and for horizontal games (sidescrollers, beat em ups, hori shmups, fighters) but leaves a lot to be desired for vertical games because they're all letterboxed. I want the real deal. This is where the Quad Laser Mark 2 comes in. I recently came into possesion of one of these:  24" HP with beautiful color reproduction, and a very low response time. Also, since it's an LCD, it'll save space inside the cabinet. I'm trying to decide on a cabinet style to go with. I've narrowed it down to a classic Williams style a la Pacman or a standard Dynamo cab. They look like this: Williams cab  Dynamo cab  What do you think? I'm also thinking about putting a PS2 in it for import shooters as well but that leaves the matter of wiring the control panel to accomodate the playstation as well as wiring the sound system I put in it to accomodate it as well. Lots of questions, lots of ideas. Lots of energy. |
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