NES Arcade

I saw someone built a Nintendo arcade on here, so I wanted to try and build my own, but with an old laptop so this is how i did it

Step 1

First I made the outside of the Arcade, with some foam billboard i got at michaels, 2 for 3 dollars !!!

I measured what i wanted for the walls and cut them out, then I took pieces of wood and connected them to the side with a staple gun to make the cabinet nice and steady.

Comments

[Tomcat94]

What would look indefinitely better (although it requires a little more money and manual labor) would be to grab a USB to NES adapter and use a NES arcade stick (like this ) and rest it on top of the keyboard and go from there...

Other than that, this is a great concept! There should be more mini MAME machines like this...

[WhatULive4]

How exactly does the Joystick work? I just looks like it is taped to the keyboard.

[Jumpkick007]

It's the D pad from on old ps controller glued to keys for up down left right, then I attached a pen to it , so when I push the stick up the d pad presses the key that the up arrow on the d pad is glued to, the tape is there for support and to keep everything together while the glue dried

[castothomas]

coolness never would have considered that approach, good job