Build your own arcade machine like Rasmus

With gaming consoles making their way into homes everywhere, the video arcades of yesteryear are disappearing quickly and going the way of the dodo. Rasmus Soerensen is not quite ready to let go of the era of the massive gaming machines though and went as far as building his own. He did not take the easy route and simply buy one. Instead he built one from scratch!

Best of all, he has posted all the details that show how he went about doing so for those who are curious to see how he did it or those who want to follow in his footsteps. You’ll find pictures, work drawings and a list of all the hardware that went into his console.

Seeing the completed console definitely brought me back to the times that my best friend spent hours feeding quarters into the games in an effort to walk away at the end of the day with bragging rights!

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