Ready for PRIME TIME!!!!

Well, once sanded all I had to do was in theory fit it through the door and easily reassemble.... 2 problems with that bit of logic.

1) It's heavy bulky and fucking stupid. Putting the two sides together alone would have been impossible. And since the wife was out getting her nails done, I was fortunate to have a good friend of mine (Jeremy) give me a hand. Thanks again!

2) Oh, the second problem with that logic was it was a pain in the ass... no way was that an easy step.

I have to admit it looks good!

Time to Prime...

This was one step I was looking forward to for a long time... The whole painting part, a few things surprised me... one being the paint (A semi gloss black) and the primer together was $60.00. I can tell you now if you are reading this and are my wife, I'm sorry. But other than that it was fun.

I primed the inside where the light is going to go to help make it more reflective and drown out the light... I wonder how that's going to work out??? We'll see!

Primed!

I have decided to keep the front blue for a couple of reasons... it still looks very nice and it will go well with the Marquee I have picked out over at mamemarquees.com.

Overall I give the Arcade a point due to assembly, but I got the last laugh making him my bitch by painting him white... ha ha ha.

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Sand Master "B"

What a horrible title.... "Sand Master 'B'".... sorry.

Here are some exciting pictures of the world of sanding. Enjoy.

The Arcade came with a plasticy blue color thing... so pealing or sanding this off was a must!

See the difference???? See?????

I live in an apartment... it's small, but that wont stop me... go big or go home!

After sanding this side for an hour and a half, I realized the shitty dull blue under the plasticy blue is just going to have to stay. Not that I mind, I will just add more coats of primer and paint... no biggie!

Current Score:

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(I'm in the lead!)

Arcade Cabinet Comes Home.

My Arcade stuck in my living room.

I managed to get the cabinet off the truck and through my apartment door thanks to Mike and Drew. From there however we were screwed. It's a monster! It houses a 32" Arcade monitor with ease, which by my calculations this thing is close to 33-35" wide! My door ways inside are a a sad 31". My friend Mike thought the easiest solution was to rip off the molding long my door frames, I measured and remeasured and found that even if we did that there was no guarantee that it would fit. The only option was to take it apart. Sounds easy enough right??? Answer: False!

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The next day i was able to move the Arcade in my kitchen so I could move around freely in my living room. *** Side Note*** My wife is awesome, and was very supportive! *** End Side Note*** The next two days i did nothing but unscrew hundreds (seemed like thousands) of screws holding this monster together. I was able to get help removing the monitor thanks to Mike. Always get help for a number of reasons one being that this thing weighed a ton, and second, if dropped it would explode. Not to mention you may touch something you were not meant to touch. Monitors store thousands of volts for long periods of time. And since I was unaware when the last time this thing was plugged in I didn't want to take a chance. Eventually I was able to deconstruct this beast.

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Just a few sexy pics of my monitor being undressed

It starts...

Hello, if you are reading this it's because I told you to (I'll be the first to admit blogs suck and are a bit homo... but whatever). This offers me a pretty decent way to chronicle my rise of arcadiam, or arcadisim...... no, I like arcadiam better.

So where to start???

I guess it should start where this blog started... my work. I have a lot of free time online due to work (or lack there of). So I began this quest by doing what I do best... googling random shit. And eventually I found this page:

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm

This site hands down is by far the most informative website ever made.... I know what you are thinking, and no Wikipedia is not informative. It's a portal for two types of people: idiots who believe everything they read, and idiots who write on Wikipedia. And then there is Webmd.com, which is a great site if you're an inspiring hypochondriac... Anyway I am getting way off topic here.

I found the site, and got hooked. I then set off for a quest to not only create my own upright arcade, but I wanted people to marvel at my greatness (I don't know anyone who has one of these... ha ha ha).

I started off with a plan I got online... everyone who has researched building an arcade knows which plan I am talking about... the Lusid cabinet. It looks nice and is well thought out... I just didn't think I could pull off some of the cuts (My stepfather is a carpenter, but was flaking out, and wanted no part in this.... so I had to choose something I could do worse case scenario).

I then found a great resource of different types of plans brought to you by the letter J (just click my little J there to get to the site, then click on "Cabinet Plans"). Thanks to Jakobud.com

That weekend I talked with a good friend of mine, Drew. I told him about my killer plan of supremacy and was ready to rock and roll like no other mother. He then told me a little story that revolved his own arcade, and how it is sitting at his parents house collecting dust. Long story short we came to an accord, and now I am a proud owner of an older X-men VS Street Fighter cabinet. A four player control panel, and a lot of work to do....