Arcade Supreme Mid-Size - MAME

This MAME machine project might be a bit ambitious, as I have realized after the fact. It is a mid-size MAME machine with an old-school 24" hunch-back tube TV... I had a vision, for my two little guys, a stand-up machine just for their height; but little did I factor in the resolution of the TV during extended game play, nor the weight of the beast during assembly, as well as the weight of the entire machine after assembly (when moving from one side of the house to the other) and the multitude of other anomalies along the way to completion...

Disassemble and prep your hunch-back to get an idea of the dimensions after it's stripped out of it's original casing...

Pull out your blue-print and start measuring onto your panels; you'll have to do this for the size/dimensions of your TV because I designed the cabinet based on the size of my TV...

As the title states; cut your wood panels, I used 3/4" panels due to the hunch-back weight and size, drill the control panel, cut the marque with applied graphics (I had to bribe my co-worker to print me the graphics), wire the joysticks and buttons (eBay), as well as the two (2) coin slots, custom-wire your computer's power button and LED strips to the top of the cabinet, paint and assemble...

Drop your computer with all your MAME games loaded, configure your joysticks and buttons - and the rest is all fun and game. Due to the limited time and unexpected sign-up with Instructables - the instructions and schematics of this project are unclear... anyhow, this is an idea for your inspiration to bring your nostalgic dreams into reality...