Pikea 4 Player Cocktail Table

flow86

Hi,
this is my first Retropie-Build:
2x Ikea Lack Table (The Bottom Table is removable...)
4x Arduino Leonardo
1x Rpi3
19" Monitor from ebay
Some Buttons an Joysticks
(i used the old Mega-Drive/Genesis controller as template for button layout. SNES would have been to much buttons for the smal table)

It´s for my 30th Birthtay Theme Party... The 80´s ;-)

edmaul69

@flow86 looks good. But unless you are playing warlords i would hate to be players 2-4 looking at the scrren sideways or upside down. :D

flow86

Games we played so far that work from every point of view:

Megadrive/genesis:
Gauntlet 4
bomberman
micro machines
dino dinis soccer

NES:
tank battle
volleyball

C64:
4 player pacman
spacelords

caver01

@flow86 I just added PaddleMania to my cocktail cab. I think it would work with your configuration too. Check it out--seems like good 4-player fun!

I like the clever use of butterfly latches to extend the table height. I forget about that style of latch even though I have four of them myself!

caver01

@flow86 Also, you probably already figured this out, but just about any arcade classic (donkey kong, pac man, frogger, etc) that is a vertical game can be set to fill the screen and played from the vertical ends, and if you configure the cabinet style (with virtual DIP switches using in-mame GUI) to cocktail, you get the screen flipping for player 2. Works a treat. Also, you can do that with some horizontal games that support it. A game like Black Tiger can be setup that way--even though it's horizontal, they only way to enable Player 2 controls separate from P1 is to set it to Cocktail mode and it flips. This is perfect for your cabinet.

Long story short, 4-player gaming is great, but the supported games is a limited list. However, having positions around the perimeter does set you up for some ideal classic gaming. It sure beats viewing vertical games in "pillar-box" style on a horizontal screen.