Arcade Games

Here I document and offer up the fruits of my tinkering in arcade games.

Cabinets

These are modeled in FreeCAD. The idea is to provide people with an easy-to-follow method of cutting out plywood to create these cabinets. Actual documentation for doing that can be found at other sites linked from here. Soon I will host them here.

Midway Ms Pacman / Galaga Cocktail Table Cabinet (md5sum: 0b276d82f9bfe71316aa6ae468a5555b last edited July 8, 2023)

Midway's cocktail table cabinets are some of my favorite cabinet designs. This design is best known for housing Ms Pacman and Galaga.

I based this on documentation created by Kyle Lindstrom. Here are his plans for shaping the pieces. Here are his instructions for putting it together. Here are some photos of a cabinet made by Chris Moore from these plans and instructions.

Midway Pacman Cocktail Table Cabinet (md5sum: 27178a806fdab448d2cc479ca0cdc08f last edited July 16, 2023)

This cocktail table cabinet design was primarily used for housing Pacman. I based the model, again, on Kyle Lindstrom's excellent work. Its original design was rather complex and included "a very complex corner that would be extremely difficult to manufacture at low cost.". Kyle reworked the construction to resemble that of the simplified Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet, while still looking like the original Pacman cabinet.

When I started work on this, I had trouble finding a legible copy of Kyle's PDF containing dimensions of the parts. So here are the plans for shaping the pieces and the instructions for putting it together.

Williams Joust Cocktail Table Cabinet (md5sum: ded24d501109560b573e35d4bba2a921 last edited July 15, 2023)

This is a somewhat rare cocktail cabinet.

This model was based on documentation by various people, which I found at https://www.classicarcadecabinets.com/joust-cocktail.html. There is still a lot of work to be done.

Donkey Kong / Classic-Nindendo Stand-Up Cabinet (md5sum: b53db19087fe7c3cc964d576c14d3074 last edited July 8, 2023)

This is a model of one of Nintendo's earliest cabinets most popularly known for housing Donkey Kong. It was also used for Radar Scope, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, and Popeye among others. Variants were used for Mario Bros and the Vs series of games.

This model was based on documentation by various people, which I found at https://www.classicarcadecabinets.com/donkey-kong.html. It is not yet complete.

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