I've curated some of the other 'aussie' style MAME
cocktail cabinet projects, reviews, restorations and plans
out there. More properly these are 'Japanese' style and
appeared in European and American arcades too. In general
they somewhat resemble a school desk. Japanese companies
like Taito, Nintendo and Sega made variations. In
Australia we had Hankin and LAI (Leisure and Allied
Industries) which dominated the field. Anyway us aussies
call these types of cabs 'Aussie' because we never saw any
other type! In fact several of these examples aren't even
in Australia. But i'm glad that was the only type we had
because i think these look great. I've been in love with
my MAME cocktail cabinet since i built it and so here is a
chance for others to feel the love. I really think there
is absolutely no better way to play Space Invaders,
Frogger, Pacman or Galaga than sitting at a cocktail cab.
Sounds like a plan (",)
( Sadly some of the sites I had listed have
disappeared over time. I had the foresight to save some of
them so if the link doesn't go to the original site it
will go to a list with the dead sites mirrored. )
The
cocktail
lounge (this is the guy that inspired me. mine is
very similar to his. and obviously inspired the name
of my page too!)
An
excellent Hankin cab, actually about 6 of them!
www.oblate-spheriods.demon.co.uk/mame.htm
Dakka's
Aussie
cocktail. Similar mame cab to mine but with 17"
monitor
Another
cab
based on the dimensions i used. Features really cool
double upright legs
www.aleax.com
good
site about converting a taito cab to mame. includes
some dimensions.
www.users.on.net/~bradandpam/cocktail/index.html
mickeys
cocktail
cab conversion
chablis's
renovated Jatre Spectar (Space Invaders Clone)
cabinet
A
Frogger restoration in progress
Mark's Mame Taito cocktail
cabinet
The
Mame
Cave. Features a Hankin cab converted to MAME
A
mame conversion utilising the original JAMMA
harness. good info on setting up and some pics
A site documenting IPM
Invader. Lots of info here on the game including
some photos
Cory Feldmans
table for two. Great conversion wth movable control
panels.
John's
Arcade.
Some pics and a video of an original Nintendo Popeye
cocktail cab.
Chopperthedog's
Space
Invaders Part II conversion
a
3d rendering of a taito cab. nice exploded view
Player One is the champ who went
to the trouble of measuring up his machine. i used
his drawings to build mine
dimensions
for
the hankin cab featured in the Mame cave
a directory with many photos
(huge!) of a taito cab and a ruler for dimensions
a
drawing of a taito cab with some dimensions (no
details like legs or coin doors)
some
very detailed drawings of an LAI (similar to my cab)
from Foot at aussiearcade.com
if you can't log into aussiearcade,
here are the drawings 1 2
3
Kaizen's
17/21" LAI/Taito plans (with lots of build pic)
If you have an 'aussie/japanese'
style cab let me know and i'll add it to the list.
THE site for advice on
aussie cocktails and much more
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