I bought my arcade in November, 2005 and I absolutely love it. It's a multi-pcb jamma board that you can snag from arcadeshop.com, which is a truely great board. This board has been shoved into an original Ms. Pacman cabinet, and the control panel replaced on the cabinet to provide support for a trackball, and buttons for any games that need them.

I'll be posting some pics as soon as I can get some decent ones made up. :) For now, these will have to do.

The Arcadeshop.com Multi-PCB JAMMA board is a great emulation board with support for 48 vertical and 14 horizontal classic arcade games. You are required to secure your own licensing for each of the roms, but then then you can enjoy all the classics with a great menu.

You can download an easy installer for all available games:

• Download RomPack Installer (except Donkey Kong Foundry and Donkey Kong II -- see below)

Included Vertical Games (last update: 2008-05-03)

Arkanoid, Bagman, Burgertime, Carnival, Crash, Crystal Castles, Centipede, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Donkey Kong 3, Frogger, Galaga, Galaga 2000, Galaga: Enduring Freedom, Galaxian, Galaxian Part X, Gorf, Gridlee, Jr. Pac-Man, Liberator, Mappy, Mario Bros, Millipede, Missle Command, Moon Cresta, Moon Patrol, Mr. Do, Mr. Do's Castle, Ms. PacMan, PacMan, PacMan Plus, Pengo, Phoenix, Pooyan, Qix, Rally-X, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Deluxe, Sinistar, Super Bagman, Super Breakout, Super PacMan, Super Zaxxon, Tetris, Zaxxon

* NOTE: Donkey Kong II is available from Arcadeshop. This game is installed directly form within the Menusys application after purchase. I have NOT included DK2 in this RomSet.

Donkey Kong Foundry can be purchased for $10 by clicking here. Please note that you also need a license to Donkey Kong for the use of the Donkey Kong Foundry game to be legal. I have NOT included Donkey Kong Foundry in this RomSet.

Included Horizontal Games (last update: 2007-12-20)

Crash (new), Defender, Stargate, Robotron, Joust, Bubbles, Moon Patrol, Mario Bros, Qix (new), Rally-X (new), Splat, Sinistar, Tetris (new), and Wizard of Wor

Remember to click "Download Updates" after loading MenuSys to make sure you have the latest software.

You can not legally use these roms unless you are licensed to do so. If you are licensed to use them then you can use these roms with your multi-pcb jamma board or using an emulator such as MAME.

MAME

First, the king of arcade emulation, MAME. MAME is software that has been ported to just about every computer platform that exists out there, and it can play thousands of arcade games. This software is awesome. On a normal PC, it's the closest thing you can get to the real games, since it uses the actual rom dumps of the actual games. You just can't get any closer, without the real arcade.

MAME Marquees

A nice site to get your custom art printed, or pick from some of their existing art that is available. I really like their DK/Pac Side Art, A nice side art set for a multi-game cabinet.

ArcadeShop.com

Looks like a good site for games, parts and some art as well. These are the folks that sell the awesome multi-pcb jamma board that I have in my cabinet.

RGVAC Newsgroup

rec.games.video.arcade.collecting -- a nice usenet newsgroup with tons of info about arcade collecting. buy, sell, trade, parts, recomendations, you name it. This link uses google groups, but you can just load the newsgroup in any news reader you want.

Dream Arcades

Looks like a decent place to get a custom built cabinet for use with MAME for a good pc based system. The pictures of the way they bezel the monitor don't look the best, but I would have to see it in person before I judge it TOO harshly.

Dream Authentics Excalibur

An even nicer MAME cabinet, although a bit more expensive. Still, probably worth it. This looks much higher quality than the Dream Arcades system listed above. Or go all out for the Ultra Quad 4 player cabinet. Very Nice.