donderdag 30 mei 2013

FuZZyArcade the beginning

In heart i have always been a gamer, when i was a teenager i entered the world of console gaming. From Santa i got a Nintendo Entertainment System which was pretty popular back then. Switching games with friends was common, unfortunatly a lot of them are lost or stupidly sold now lol :-) Off course back in those days arcade cabinets were on every carnival, so i played those a lot to.
Over the years i also had a SNES, then switched to computer gaming for many years, and switching back to consoles with PS2, PS3 and who knows what the future will bring.

I have always been a fan of what i call 'simple' games. These days gaming is more about deadlines and the graphical aspect and this sometimes goes at the cost of plain good gameplay, which is the most important thing about a game after all. So it is not a wonder i have grown adept of oldschool games.

Having the software for many years i never thought of the possibilities with it. It was when i was curiously searching the internet for a Killer Instinct Arcade cabinet that i came across these MAME cabinets. Mame stands for Multi-Arcade-Machine Emulator. As it says, it supposably plays a lot of various console/arcade games on a personal computer environment.
Add these old games to a cabinet and u cant get more nostalgic then that. Off course buying one would be easy, but €3,5k was to much for my liking so i decided to build one myself.

Off course going from the idea to do it, to actually having a finished cabinet is not a small walk in the park. It is therefor that i wanted to somehow keep track of how i did it.
Not only so i would remember myself how i did it, and what i could've done better, but also to show to people it is not too hard and anyone can do it, but it is also not to be underestimated.

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