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Does anyone know where I can get cheap arcade machines? I have been looking for awhile now, but all I can find is people selling machines for 1k when its worth 350$. So if you know any trusted places to buy cheap arcade machines id love to see them.

you would be better off buying an empty arcade cabinet buying a moderate pc and a decent graphics card and  and a 24 inch lcd moniter and installing MAME with Arcade Roms installed . building your own means you can have what ever Arcade game you want.

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Xlembros posted: (17th Dec 2012, 01:38 am)

you would be better off buying an empty arcade cabinet buying a moderate pc and a decent graphics card and  and a 24 inch lcd moniter and installing MAME with Arcade Roms installed . building your own means you can have what ever Arcade game you want.

Yea I have been looking into that. I think I might just end up starting to make my own arcade cabinet as a hobby/project. I actually been watching this tutorial about how he made his case and it looks fairly easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIRVE0NMDsI

Here is a site that has links to pretty much everything to build an actual arcade machine: http://www.mameworld.info

Aside from that, you can always buy an upright 1 game machine on Ebay for around $2000, but it is probably a lot less expensive to build your own.