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Originally posted by MrPheer
I finished the base for the x-arcade panel, which i have decided is too small so i ordered a really cool control panel from slikstik, but I havent put in the marquee & marquee light yet
but here is a pic from right after I moved it into the house and just had the x-arcade panel sitting on 2 boards
http://www.mrpheer.com/gameroom.jpg
the pacman is sitting next to it in the corner. I'm running out of room 
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Great to see another classic game collector... we're a dying breed
I'm in the process of putting together a MAME cab as well - started with a dedicated Mortal Kombat 4 cab that I picked up for a couple hundred - fully functional but kind of beat up. The fighter cabs make great MAME cabs because of their monitor size and the size of the control panel.
I then picked up an Arcade VGA card to directly interface with the arcade monitor from the PC -- but haven't had time to hook everything up yet. Basically all sitting in parts waiting for some time to tackle the job.
If somebody does pickup MrPheer's Pac cabinet... a nice addition might be the Multi-Pac unit which plays all 24 versions of Pacman that worked on that same hardware (Pacman, Ms. Pacman, Pacman Plus, Pengo, etc..).
I think they had to stop manufacturing the Multi-Pac units because Namco started giving them heat... but you can still find them around.