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Sorry, this isn't about pina coladas or daiquiris!
I thought I'd throw out some of my progress on my Gameex cocktail cab build.
It's not going to be in the traditional style.
Recent parties in our new media room (80% complete) made us realize we needed more surfaces for placing drinks, snacks, etc. when we have a large crowd. We decided a small island would be the best option. I decided building in the cocktail arcade would be the b@lls, and that it would be set up for vertical games (already having two upright horizontals).
Since we wanted this to look as much like a proper kitchen island as possible, and not your classic vinyl-wood and be-stickered cocktail cab, I decided to use a few left overs from the cherry kitchen cabinets installed in the media room earlier: an over-the-fridge cabinet, two tall fridge side panels, and an upper and lower Z-shaped cabinet. The side panels were cut down and used to build up the sides of the fridge cabinet. The upper z-cab sacrificed its door to to be redesigned into a flat panel. All the cabinetry came from a kitchen design showroom when they sold off a discontinued line's floor models for next to nothing. I found a butcher block style table top on Craigslist for the island surface.
Arcade parts came far and wide: Craigslist for a beauty of a 22" CRT, Groovy Game Gear for buttons, encoder, joys and spinner, eBay for other goodies. Xgaming for the trackball.
This is on the cheap so far. The only things I've had to buy are the control panel parts, and the butcher block top.
More to come...
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