This is part two in a series about building a custom arcade cabinet. Read part one here. I am not an expert carpenter. I’m not even an amateur. I’m not an engineer or an artist and I don’t know how to use AutoCAD. When it comes to building a custom arcade cabinet, designing one myself …

I’ve often said that for someone who loves video games, I was born at just the right time. Being born in 1985, I missed the video game crash of 1983 by two years. By the time I was old enough to understand what a video game was, the Nintendo Entertainment System was in full swing …