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RetroBlast! Review: Wells-Gardner D9200 Arcade Monitor by Kevin Steele, 2003/08/01

When choosing components for a MAME arcade cabinet, one of the most important choices is the type of display. Quite often if you manage to find an old arcade cabinet you’ll get an arcade monitor included with the cab. In this case, the choice of display has already been made.

RetroBlast! Review: Bits Limited SmartStrip by Andrew Lattof, 2003/02/01

The Bits Limited Smart Strip

RetroBlast! IPAC Review by Kevin Steele, 2003/01/15

One of the most important parts of creating a MAME cab is connecting the arcade buttons and joysticks to the computer — without working buttons or a joystick, you just don't have an arcade machine! Since the PC can't accept arcade controller input directly, you need to adapt the button and joystick input into a format that the PC can understand.

RetroBlast! Review: Lazer LEDs by Kevin Steele, 2003/01/03

As soon as I finished building the MAMEframe, I soon discovered that I had made two errors in the lighting choices for my cabinet: the fluorescent trackball illumination and the incadescent lights on the coin mechanism.

Arcade Controller Roundup by Kevin Steele, 2003/01/01