Wanted to have front-facing amplifier access for volume control (kids).Didn't want to do a traditional lit marquee, or deal with acrylic/plexiglass.Lockable rear access door, removable not hinged.
#Free bartop arcade cabinet plans pdf plus
Painted finish rather than vinyl (cost/time, plus i like plain/solid colour).Deeper control panel to accomodate admin buttons all on one panel.The monitor needed to sit more upright than most bartops I saw (better for the kids).I wanted to use a decent (20-24") sized widescreen monitor (sorry retro gaming purists), as the bartop will also run Kodi for movies/music/Youtube.I also wanted to do a few things differently to most of the kits and other bartop's I'd seen. Most bartop kits are sold in the US, UK and Europe so shipping and the sucky Canadian dollar knocked out buying a kit so I hunted the internet and found the Degenatron-modified Weecade plans, which seemed pretty good and what most bartop's are likely based around anyway. So I started looking around for ready-cut bartop cabinet kits, thinking it'd be way easier and cheaper than building my own, but I didn't really find much - either I didn't love the shape of it, or it was impossibe or prohibitive cost-wise to get it to Canada. Heck, I didn't even get around to building a workbench in my garage. We live in Canada, and while I have a few basic tools/workspace, I don't have stuff like chopsaws, sash clamps, routers, bench drill, or even a jigsaw for that matter. Initially, I was thinking about building a 1-player bartop arcade with a small screen like RetroBuiltGames does - but then we have 2 very young boys who want everything the other had, so I figured I'd better go big and do a proper 2 player system. And reading, reading, reading and finding elements of builds I liked. Reading more, I saw a lot of people were making their very own awesome bartop arcade machines. As part of reading up on Kodi, I happened across a few posts in Facebook groups talking about Retro Pie and started discovering a whole retro-gaming world!īeing a 70's/80's kid who grew up with a lot of the old 'classic' consoles and arcade games (miss-spent childhood), the idea of a retro game system immediately appealed to me. Here's the 'why' and what I wanted to achieve with my bartop arcade build.įirst up, why? Well, I started getting into building Kodi-powered Raspberry Pi streaming boxes over a year ago, and was looking for other cool ideas for projects.
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