DIY Arcade Cabinet
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I'm showing off one of the little PICO 8 games I made last summer, Shai Hulud, at a indie gaming event in Portland this weekend, and it occurred to me that while I could just let people play it on my laptop, there might be better options.
So I've spent the last few days improvising this sketchy arcade cabinet getup:
- disassembled and spray painted a used keyboard, with keycaps to highlight the joystick and two buttons that player 1 and 2 have available
- got an old VGA CRT monitor from a friend
- went at a couple of cardboard boxes with a box cutter and some tape and cobbled together a frame with a marquee outcropping to go around the monitor
- likewise did some quick measuring and cutting on some more cardboard to build a frame for the keyboard
- spray painted the cab and keyboard mount
- laid out and had Fedex print out (on Avery transparent label material) some pixel font labels for the keyboard and a marquee title graphic and a couple of frame decorating decals for the cab
- picked up a display adapter to run from Mini DisplayPort to VGA (thanks, RadioShack, who still exists apparently)
And badabing. It's incredibly janky and also I'm fucking delighted with it. Got a couple little details to work out still before Sunday (want to get a PICO 8 logo on there, keyboard case is a bit wonky yet, etc) but am pleased that it's come together pretty quickly based on just a lot of I Wonder If... style seat-of-pantsing.
So I've spent the last few days improvising this sketchy arcade cabinet getup:
- disassembled and spray painted a used keyboard, with keycaps to highlight the joystick and two buttons that player 1 and 2 have available
- got an old VGA CRT monitor from a friend
- went at a couple of cardboard boxes with a box cutter and some tape and cobbled together a frame with a marquee outcropping to go around the monitor
- likewise did some quick measuring and cutting on some more cardboard to build a frame for the keyboard
- spray painted the cab and keyboard mount
- laid out and had Fedex print out (on Avery transparent label material) some pixel font labels for the keyboard and a marquee title graphic and a couple of frame decorating decals for the cab
- picked up a display adapter to run from Mini DisplayPort to VGA (thanks, RadioShack, who still exists apparently)
And badabing. It's incredibly janky and also I'm fucking delighted with it. Got a couple little details to work out still before Sunday (want to get a PICO 8 logo on there, keyboard case is a bit wonky yet, etc) but am pleased that it's come together pretty quickly based on just a lot of I Wonder If... style seat-of-pantsing.
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