Digital Home Thoughts: Building a MAME Arcade Cabinet

"You can bring the classic arcade experience back to life, in your own house. With a MAME arcade machine, you and your friends can play your favorite old games, on the authentic controls they were made for. In this article, we’re going to show you, step-by-step and with a lot of pictures, exactly how to build the custom arcade machine you’ve always dreamed about using old PC parts. We’re going to describe how we built our MAME cabinet, but we’re also going to describe all the choices we made along the way, including cabinet style, monitor and controls, so you can put together a machine that’s just right for you."

I've been wanting a cocktail table style arcade game for years, I've never found the right one to buy, but building one and setting up a MAME emulator on one seems like another good idea. I'll need to add it to my list of projects. Although I haven't run MAME in years, I seem to recall it does not require much in the way of resources, so this could make an ideal project for getting some life from aging netbooks too.