It is hard to say because I had some of the stuff already like the pc. Without the pc I spent about $1000. $600 of that was the controls. The tv was about $200. If you already have a decent pc and monitor, and you don't really need the best controls , you can come in well under what I spent. Check out the X-Arcade controller (They even make a cabinet!) for about $100. http://www.x-arcade.com/ This even works on consoles!
Good Luck!
I built my cabinet using these plans:
http://users.adelphia.net/~seanhat/arcade/
(click on the Design link on the left)
You can download the plans in.pdf form. I modified them a little to my liking. I had never done any woodworking like this before and I found it extremely rewarding. Now for the controls. I priced out all the parts I wanted on Happ Controls website (http://www.happcontrols.com/) and came to the conclusion that if I bought a prefab control that I wouldn't be out of so much more money. After careful research, I settled on the best:
http://www.slikstik.com/
If you want to shell out the dough, it is well worth it.
I used a fairly decent pc I had around and then found a 27 inch tv cheap at circuit city. I used a 19" monitor at first but the tv was so much better especially on the older arcade games which didn't really have great resolution anyway. Then, I finished it off with some cheap 5 1/4 car stereo speakers.
Good Luck!
Tom
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It is hard to say because I had some of the stuff already like the pc. Without the pc I spent about $1000. $600 of that was the controls. The tv was about $200. If you already have a decent pc and monitor, and you don't really need the best controls , you can come in well under what I spent. Check out the X-Arcade controller (They even make a cabinet!) for about $100. http://www.x-arcade.com/ This even works on consoles! Good Luck!
I built my cabinet using these plans: http://users.adelphia.net/~seanhat/arcade/ (click on the Design link on the left) You can download the plans in .pdf form. I modified them a little to my liking. I had never done any woodworking like this before and I found it extremely rewarding. Now for the controls. I priced out all the parts I wanted on Happ Controls website (http://www.happcontrols.com/) and came to the conclusion that if I bought a prefab control that I wouldn't be out of so much more money. After careful research, I settled on the best:
http://www.slikstik.com/
If you want to shell out the dough, it is well worth it.
I used a fairly decent pc I had around and then found a 27 inch tv cheap at circuit city. I used a 19" monitor at first but the tv was so much better especially on the older arcade games which didn't really have great resolution anyway. Then, I finished it off with some cheap 5 1/4 car stereo speakers.
Good Luck!
Tom