Well, I'm finally beginning to work on my arcade cabinet project. I've posted some pictures of the hardware I've gotten so far and I will add more pictures as I make progress. Tonight I'm planning on starting to cut wood... I wanted to start last night, but we had a bunch of severe weather move through town and I spent the majority of the night in the basement with the animals.
I'm still not sure what kind of art I'm going to have on it, I wanted to go with a Frogger theme, but I'm not really into the art from the original frogger cabinet (shown on the previous link). I really like the art on games like Centipede and Galaga... This was the kind of arcade art I loved as a kid. It really piqued my imagination with video games: in the game Millipede you played a hunter in the forest trying to kill a giant millipede with your arrows... looking at the game's graphics you might not get all that. Looking at the cabinet's side art gave you a much deeper story regarding what was going on. I may just go with no art (white sides) until I can decide what I want to do.
You can look at my initial plans to get a good idea of the general shape of the cab; it will be a little over 30" wide. It will be a two player cab (two joysticks) and will also have a trackball for games like Centipede/Millipede and Golden Tee.
I've been thinking about doing this for a *long* time now: well over two years... I'm really excited to finally get going on this project :)