As a child of the 80′s, I’ve always had a place in my heart for these arcade games that I spent countless hours and quarters on. Some of my fondest memories include my generous dad taking me and my younger brother to the arcade, giving us a bunch of tokens, hanging out with us despite not really caring about video games, hanging out at the local liquor store playing karate champ and later the original big buttoned street fighter with other kids, and pretty much fainting when we first saw the number of machines at the Disneyland arcade back in the day. So for the past few years, I’ve totally wanted to build my own arcade cabinet but unfortunately my wife and I love the modern clean lines of the Ikea aesthetic as our small house is pretty much an Ikea showroom. When I approached her a few months ago about this, it was a quick “Heck no! Where would it fit in here? It would totally look out of place even if we had the room for it.”
The design…
I convinced her to allow me to build and put an arcade cabinet in our living room if I could hide it inside a really slim 11.5″ deep Ikea billy bookcase that we had upstairs. I figured that I would divide it up into two parts and put them on drawer slides so that they would extend out and make it look like a real arcade cabinet.
Presenting the Ikeakade…
It was at this point where I decided that I would play up the Ikea aesthetic using their blue and yellow color scheme and even the graphics that they used in their instruction manuals. Our black Ikea Billy bookcase is pretty nondescript from the outside and I wanted to contrast that with the hidden arcade machine that is bright, brash and perhaps even obnoxious with its lights and colors. And thus the Ikeakade was born.
Go here for all the build details!
via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/J3fuOJ6WraU/ikeakade.html From Johnny
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