So....I bet you were wondering what I was going to do with that Taito Colony 7 cabinet I sold the game and guts out of.....No????
The idea of an arcade cabinet for my old Nintendo Entertainment System has been floating in my head for years, and I finally had a great solid cabinet to use. I had started this project twice before, with inferior cabinets, and it was not to be.
I had gotten the old Taito Colony 7, and after half fixing it, I ended up selling the game and guts out of it, leaving a great cabinet. I used the monitor in another project, and went to work on the cabinet to house my NES and my wifes Super NES. I gutted the cabinet, installed a 19 inch tube tv from a friend, built a drawer in the bottom, built doors for the front after removing coin door, and installed a wire shelf for the systems.
I hacked and installed 2 NES Advantage arcade joysticks, and routered them into the control panel. I put a Nintendo decal onto clear plexi, then mounted it onto a board, which i cut an oval out to match the nintendo logo, and put red plexiglass behind that for the marquee light to shine through. Finally, i sanded, bondoed, and painted the whole cabinet Nintendo grey, inatalled red T molding, and installed a bunch of Super Mario themed decals. It is mainly a NES system, but can play Super NES with controllers plugged in and wires coming out front doors.
This will definetely get played!!!! Its like a Nintendo 1000 in 1!!!!!!!
If you can see, i used the NES controllers as handles formthe drawer and front doors
The idea of an arcade cabinet for my old Nintendo Entertainment System has been floating in my head for years, and I finally had a great solid cabinet to use. I had started this project twice before, with inferior cabinets, and it was not to be.
I had gotten the old Taito Colony 7, and after half fixing it, I ended up selling the game and guts out of it, leaving a great cabinet. I used the monitor in another project, and went to work on the cabinet to house my NES and my wifes Super NES. I gutted the cabinet, installed a 19 inch tube tv from a friend, built a drawer in the bottom, built doors for the front after removing coin door, and installed a wire shelf for the systems.
I hacked and installed 2 NES Advantage arcade joysticks, and routered them into the control panel. I put a Nintendo decal onto clear plexi, then mounted it onto a board, which i cut an oval out to match the nintendo logo, and put red plexiglass behind that for the marquee light to shine through. Finally, i sanded, bondoed, and painted the whole cabinet Nintendo grey, inatalled red T molding, and installed a bunch of Super Mario themed decals. It is mainly a NES system, but can play Super NES with controllers plugged in and wires coming out front doors.
This will definetely get played!!!! Its like a Nintendo 1000 in 1!!!!!!!
If you can see, i used the NES controllers as handles formthe drawer and front doors

