For cabinets, if you don't mind a weekend project, I've found the Vigolix to be a fantastic DIY cabinet you can build from a single sheet of plywood: http://ww

For cabinets, if you don't mind a weekend project, I've found the Vigolix to be a fantastic DIY cabinet you can build from a single sheet of plywood: http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Super-Easy-Arcade-Machine-from-1-Sheet-of-Plywoo/ http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Super-Easy-Arcade-Machine-... I also went with the Tankstick, and am now entering my 6th month of heavily abusing it (my 4-year-old beats the heck out of it) and it still works great. I was able to just cut a hole in the Vigolix and drop the Tankstick right in. The latest one with the trackball is really fun for games like Centipede and Tempest: http://shop.xgaming.com/products/x-arcade-tankstick-trackball-usb-included http://shop.xgaming.com/products/x-arcade-tankstick-trackbal... I first ran it on a brand new LCD screen, but so many of the games look terrible on it. I eventually bought a 24-inch CRT from a used electronics store for $100, and it made a huge difference. I would love to get a larger CRT, but they seem to get exponentially more expensive the larger they go. For MAME ROMs, I went with an 8-year-old torrent of 6,000 ROMS, which had screenshots and config files all ready to go. There was some iffy software in the MAME files that Windows flagged as spyware, so I took the ROMS and screenshots and dropped them into a fresh MAME download (I had to grab an older version of MAME because the config files weren't compatible with newer versions). The MALA front end is fantastic, and I easily configured it with a Star Trek LCARS theme. I've been exploring this collection for months now and keep finding favorite classics I had completely forgotten about. My only complaint is that no matter what version of MAME I run, I seem to only get about a 50/50 chance of any ROM I download running. I know I'm not the only one who has this problem. Otherwise, this is very fun hobby preserving these old titles that would otherwise be forgotten.