Smallest bartop arcade design you can find that still supports a 24″ monitor.Some of the great features of the Pacade include: Additionally, many people asked for an arcade without a lighted marquee to make construction simpler and to add to eliminate the light in darker spaces (though you can always dim the marquee if you use an LED strip).
It adds the swooped styling of a 50’s classic car. The Pacade Bartop arcade was created to resemble a very iconic bartop arcade found in many bars and casinos in the late 1970’s. Over time I will be adding new and different designs for you to choose from including my most recent arcade cabinet I’ve named the “Pacade”! The Original Stand-Up Arcade Later on I was challenged by a good friend of mine to build a smaller bartop arcade that could be used in smaller spaces. Eventually I created YouTube arcade videos and the rest is history. Of course, not having time to do that, I instead created plans that they could follow to build it themselves DIY in their own garage. It was such a hit that friends started asking me to make cabinets for them. Originally, I focused on creation of a full-size stand-up arcade cabinet for my game room. So when I finally had the space to put one, I jumped at the opportunity and created my very own modernized version of an old-school arcade! I’ve even created arcade plans that you can use to re-create my arcade! These modernized arcade cabinets use LCD monitors, run on an incredibly simple to setup Raspberry Pi, and allow you to not just run one old-school arcade game, but literally thousands of them! Learn About my Arcade Cabinets and Arcade Plans
Games like Pac-Man, Galaga, Xevious, Pitfall, Zaxxon, and so many others were there to play! As a kid I would spend many hours (even all day!) at one of these arcades with my friends.Īs an adult it became my dream to build an arcade cabinet for my home. In fact, the only finishing we had to do was apply edge banding to the fronts of the shelves, and paint the doors and face frames.To experience the best of video games, you’d need to travel to your local arcade where hundreds of machines would be at your disposal. We again used PureBond Formaldehyde-Free plywood in prefinished maple (about $20 more per sheet and you can do a couple of cabinets - or more for walls - with a sheet) for the carcasses so no finishing required inside the cabinet. The general rule is the door should always be taller than it is wide - I personally wouldn't do any larger than a 24" wide wall cabinet with a single door - and even then, that's a pretty darn big door (and heavy).īecause of the change in the double doors, you also need to add a center stile (also called a mid-stile or a vertical piece on the face frame) to cover the gap between the double doors. But with a 36" width, it's recommended to do double doors instead of a single door.
More kitchen cabinet plans today - this time, it's a wall 36" wall cabinet, much like the 21" wall cabinet we shared a few days ago. and fighting the urge to not start on kitchen number two. We are trying to stay warm up here in Alaska, and are still waiting on a very late baby to show up. Hope you are still enjoying a little down time (and maybe a little DIY time?) this Holiday season!
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