Zelda, Tron, NES, Super Mario World Bartops

phrazelle

Thanks! The marquee on that one was a good find. It's an actual plastic Nintendo sign attached to a piece of acrylic, and the LEDs light it up great!

markyh444

Big fan of the Zelda build dude. Does the Triforce on the front function as buttons coz it's be ace if they did?

phrazelle

@markyh444 Hell yes they do! They are all wired as the same button, which is assigned to exit games.

markyh444

@phrazelle 😱

phrazelle

@markyh444 It's three of these buttons

markyh444

@phrazelle You sir, are a boss!

Zigurana

These are the best!

celly

Bitchin builds man! And i second that triforce button, wow.

caver01

How do you get "reverse printing on acrylic"?

phrazelle

@caver01 I went to a local print shop that does signs - not a Kinkos or Office Max, but a real print shop. I took my pre-cut acrylic pieces in and they printed my art backwards on what I believe are something like window stickers, then applied them to the backside of my pieces.

lilbud

@phrazelle I remember seeing your Zelda cabinet on Instructables. It makes mine look like crap in comparison

Adrian

Great work @phrazelle. How could one contact you about commissioning another bartop?

phrazelle

@Adrian Thanks! We could talk about that, but shipping would be the big issue. I live in the middle of the US and I believe it would have to be freight. You can email me at phrazelle -at- gmail.com

obsidianspider

I love these. I only wish I had any idea where to get the case art made.

thedudester80

I have to say the Cabinet art is fantastic. My favorite is the Super Mario World. Where did you have that done??? So good.

phrazelle

@thedudester80 Thanks! I did all the art. To be fair, they're all basically mashups redrawn in Illustrator. For example, the enemy side of the SMW cabinet started with this image:

but I pulled the elements out that I wanted to use as vectors and redesigned in Photoshop.

@obsidianspider As for printing, they are just large vinyl decals printed at a sign shop. Same with the marquee, bezel and control board. I took in the plexiglass pieces pre-cut and they reverse printed on the back of them.

ShdwKnt

what type of display are using.. PC monitor? TV? Im interested in this quite a bit

phrazelle

@ShdwKnt I used computer monitors on all of these. Biggest thing was making sure they had DVI outputs so I could use an HDMI > DVI cable for the video signal. I sourced them all from random areas (pawn shops, craigslist, company liquidations, etc) and built the bezels around the monitors I wound up with.

FlyingTomahawk

Very nice job on those cabinets! Just Beautiful.
I personally like the Tron one. ;-)

I kinda miss the fighting game cabinet designs. Most guys when they build bar top cabinets they use Nintendo characters or classic arcade game designed decals/bezels. I would love to see a nice Street Fighter or any NeoGeo fighting game designed cabinet.
Another thing I wonder is the button layout out. Is that chosen on purpose or just matching the decal design?
I cannot imagine to play all too long on such a cabinet without getting wrist pain. When I used to build my own arcade sticks I always went with the Japanese stick and button layouts or the same one like Hori does for their sticks. Check here.