Well, as you can see I've got a picture to share with more to come in a few days. This is the 80% assembled, unfinished cabinet. Since this picture was taken, I've stained the entire thing a dark shade of blue and added the plastic trim (called t-molding) and installed the coin door. That's right - this sucker is going to be able to accept real quarters or tokens when it is all finished - just like a real arcade machine does. Of course I'll have it set to free play but the option is there.

I've also started the assembly of the control panels which will house all of the the joysticks and buttons. This project has three separate control panels - 2 on the short sides for vertical games (like Pac-man) and one 2-player long one for playing horizontal games (like Street Fighter II). The difference between a horizontal game and a vertical game is the way it is oriented on the screen. Your normal picture tube television displays everything in 4:3 mode or horizontally. If you were to turn the TV on its side it would now be positioned to display games in vertical mode. There are many different games out there that come in both varieties.

Overall it's not looking too bad so far but once I get some new pictures posted here you will really be able to see something neat. I'm aiming to post new pictures by Monday. Stay tuned!