WARNING! - This Arcade Machine design WILL offend you

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WARNING! - This Arcade Machine design WILL offend you

I am not sure if this has been posted before, but check this thing out.

Personally, I find it disgusting but give the guy mad props for the effort. Great video too, watch it!

http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/index_somac_id.php

I love his warning:

WARNING!

This Arcade Machine design WILL offend you as it is crowded with A LOT of buttons/functions and detailed information written on the panels. This project IS over the top, and was NEVER intended to be a K.I.S.S project (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID) and support for KIDS and/or GrandMa's playing on it. It was designed and must be used by computer professionals knowing their way around!

Hardcore Arcade Machine followers from the 80's should NOT enter any further into this project as you will be overwhelmed!

Also non-intelligent persons should NOT attempt to understand this project as it is simply to much to comprehend! This machine was designed by a madman and is clearly a project to be understand by professionals and quite intelligent people. Narrow minded people are hereby offered to return back to where they came from. And that is the truth!

Also note that this machine does not ONLY support emulating of typical Arcade games, but also 15 other hardware solutions, like Commodore 64, SEGA, Nintento, Commodore Amiga etc.
And to FULLY be able to support all that, a multitude of buttons with information HAD to be added for access. The LAYOUT may seem awfully crowded and overkilled, but you DON'T need to use 15 buttons JUST because they ARE there! Common sense is all.

Any persons playing on this machine will have to go through a crash course during a 20 minute learning process. This is simply rocket science!

You have been warned, this will burn your eyes and soul as the only machine in the world of its design!

And please understand that this project was ALWAYS intended to be over the top! Keeping that in mind, you may now enter the world of a 100% selfbuilt game arcade machine never ever seen before.
 
I will say he has an interesting solution for swapping out control panels...
And the 3D- Matrix style frontend at least looks somewhat cool albeit completely impractical...
He did not destroy a classic cabinet in the construction
Plus, the warning is hilarious.

OK, He may live... for now :D
 
Thread title should have something about the shrinkage you will experience opening that link.

- M1A
 
That thing is pretty darn ugly, but at least the guy has a sense of humor.

I think that the game selection menu might be a symptom of schizophrenia or some other serious mental impairment.
 
Don't like the menu system as that's almost a game itself.
Other then that I really like what he did and this is the first time I ever felt like this about such a machine, hey that's ok, it interests me.
I would most def play it if I would (hypotheticly speaking) encounter it somewhere.
 
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Yeah, I don't really have a problem with it, because he built the entire thing himself. This is what M.A.M.E. guys *should* do so they can get it the way they want it, and nobody will bitch about cabinets getting destroyed. Not my cup of tea, but to each his own, MORE POWER TO YA BROTHER!
 
a multitude of buttons with information HAD to be added for access.

no, they didnt have to be. the emulators can be configured to use the same buttons for multiple purposes. what a tool.
 
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