It’s a common sight in our community for a life-expired arcade cabinet to be repurposed as a MAME cabinet with an up-to-date screen and other internals. Many of us have had some fun pursuing high scores in a hackerspace somewhere, and even if they don’t have the screen burn and annoying need for cash of the originals they still deliver plenty of fun.
But if there’s one pleasure an adult can pursue that a kid in a 1980s arcade couldn’t, it’s a cool glass of beer. [Marcus Young] has brought together the two with his Barcaderator, a custom MAME cabinet with a beer tap on the side and a fridge for a keg in its base.
The MAME internals include a Lattepanda Alpha and an LED controller for those illuminated buttons. Where this build shines is in its custom cabinet, which instead of being an all-in-one unit takes the form of a base and top half that are detatchable. It appears to take its inspiration and build techniques from the world of flight cases. You can see the detail where the two halves come together in this image. The result should be of great interest to anyone who has struggled with moving an unwieldy traditional arcade cabinet.
This is we think the first beer/arcade combo to grace these pages. But we’ve had more than one arcade cabinet, and definitely quite a few kegs along the way.
I’d Tap That!
I wouldn’t “tap” it :o
But I’d certainly be happy to have one in my shed next to my other arcade canines
Over the past decade I have built approximately 45 MAME bar top and table type arcade machines for friends, family and charities. All of them combined would never be as cool as this one. :)
Another cool one of these was created by some members of the Amazon Lumberyard team.
http://www.jasonchildress.com/portfolio/the-lumbercade/
it had alexa integration and a touchscreen for choosing your drink and amount to pour.
This could have single handedly have saved the arcade industry.
Plus One +1
What was used for the side insets where the tap spigot is located? It seems to be an ideal piece, but too long to be a standard loaf pan. An older small block V8 valve cover would work…
custom 3d printed inlay. Both sides in case it moves location.
Or maybe two kegs?
Use it for a second keg. It will cut the line for beer in half.
That requires me to be better and more consistent at brewing. Both of which are optimistic at best. Also this is up against a bookshelf so only one line unfortunately