I went to their website, www.castlecrashers.com, and looked at the latest blog entry. Turns out their preparing for the Penny Arcade eXpo (PAX) and to promote their game they've made a series of Arcade Cabinets. It looks awesome.
Since then, I've been practically obsessed with the idea of making an Arcade Cabinet. One day I will have my own Man Cave which i will call Nerd Hold because when I was trying to type the name of it earlier I put in a D instead of an E and frankly it just sounds cool (btw Kel, if Alex's little castle gate goes missing one day, I didn't steal it even if it is standing over the door for added effect).
So now I've been playing with the idea. It'd have to be designed for four players on a curved table (so nobody is playing with a twisted neck) and room for food and drinkholders (if it's for personal effects, you know at least 3 people will be drinking on its christening), and the lot of em will plug into a console of some sort. I thought about adding a stereo and speakers to it, something for some bass I thought before thinking "What am I, a guido?"
No, sir. I am not.
To boot, the space lizard Blarkon himself pointed me to a mate of his who scratch built his own cabinet! Under AU$500 too! Thats just awesome! (I'm sure if I slipped the boss a few dinero I could nick the CRT monitor that's sitting in the corner at work... if it still works that is...)
http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=842
http://cid-c9ab6b8b280c0084.office.live.com/view.aspx/Docs/Win7%20Arcade.pptx
But yeah. I even toyed around with the idea of having two cabinets but themed based on their console. So a Playstation one would look like a Giant Playstation Portable, and the Xbox one would look like this but put a rectangle for the screen. Or do their controllers respectively. I dunno, we'll see I suppose. This is for years down the track when I get Nerd Hold up and running.
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