Doughcade II
I sold the original Doughcade about a year after I built it. Shortly after I felt alone...lost...empty. I had to do something about it, so I built the arcade I should have built the first time. I give you... Doughcade II!
Some of the highlights of this cabinet...
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Doughcade I
I couldn't believe my eyes when a friend of mine at work came up to me one day and said, "Hey, did you know people are building arcade cabinets to play MAME games?" I thought he went kooky, but as soon as I started browsing around at the huge amount of great web sites documenting the contruction of these machines, I was convinced I needed one too.
The first step was to give my wife a presentation to free up the funds to build such a beast. 20 seconds after she saw Ms. Pac-Man in action, she also was convinced that we needed some winter entertainment. You see, here in Minneapolis, Minnesota we try not to go outdoors too much when it is 10 below. We need well-equipped basements to keep up occupied in between work, sleep and shoveling snow.
So I started my research by going to some fantastic web sites such as
LuSiD's Arcade Flashback,
Raza's MAME/JAMMA Arcade Cabinet, and
Build Your Own Arcade Controls. With the help of my good woodworking/web design buddy, Don, we set out to build the cabinet based on LuSiD's designs. Don was invaluable in this process and added a lot to the design and construction of the Doughcade.
The reason I built this web site is to give a little help to folks trying to put together their own cabinet's. I hope it helps.
