Remember Pinel & Pinel's previous travel trunk entertainment centers, with their tech-rich features hidden inside large travel trunks? The luxury brand is back, appealing to our childhood dreams of owning a standup cabinet arcade machine (specifically Mister Do or Rally X), with a bit of fancy-pants adult detailing, such as calfskin upholstery and a 1080p display, an update for us kids who never grew up (but apparently turned out very, very rich).
51 exterior colours, 60 retro-gaming titles, 1080p LCD display, and an iPod/iPhone compatible premium sound system make for one expensive arcade machine. Starting at $13,700, to be exact. We imagine if you want next game, like back in the days during our Street Fighter II years, you'd have to place a 24-karat gold coin to get into the action. Considering the price, we'd be more apt to make our own DIY sit down, head-to-head version and enjoy playing games from this decade rather than a few decades past. But to each their own!
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Over at arcadecontrols.com, one can learn how to actually build their own machine using a PC, an old arcade cabinet, MAME, and either regular parts or parts and electronics specifically designed for this purpose. The possibilities are endless; depending, of course, on the amount of money spent. I put together my machine ten years ago (it's since been dismantled, but a link to the site is on the Wayback machine, linked from the site above. It was called Video Invasion 2001) and it was a lot of fun. It helped that I was in the amusements business, though... :)