{"id":619,"date":"2012-07-16T06:56:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:37:14","slug":"arkanoid-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/arkanoid-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkanoid Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>About a Decade ago, I build a handful of cocktail arcade cabinets with my family. Cocktail arcade cabinets are arcade cabinets where the screen faces up through a table top, and the players sit down on either side of it. We build them all from scratch with nicer materials and build quality than actual cocktail arcade cabinets.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Pictured above is an unfinished (un-stained) Ms. Pac Man cabinet. Once they were completed, we each chose different games to put in our respective cabinet. I chose to put Arkanoid and Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh. Arkanoid is a classic break-out game made by Taito in the 80’s. It’s a bit more fun than just plain-old break-out since it has power-ups, bosses, and some semblance of a storyline.<\/p>\n

In any case, one thing that was never completed to my satisfaction was the top. I printed out some power-up keys that were found on many Arkanoid cabinets, but never thought it looked very good. I’d thought about removing the artwork all together as well. But then I decided that it would be cool to print out an actual cocktail overlay as was common in the 80’s.<\/p>\n

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Many games, such as Pac-Man, Galaga, etc. had overlays that covered the entire top of the cocktail cabinet. I’d never found an Arkanoid cabinet with nice artwork, so I whipped this together. The goal was to look retro, incorporate the actual logos, and power-up information. (Click the image to enlarge)\u00a0 I’d say that I’m pretty happy with the result. The next step will be to print and cutout this design. It measures at 22″ x 32″, so It will need to be printed on a plotter, then laminated to protect it. I will post pictures of the finished result when its ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a Decade ago, I build a handful of cocktail arcade cabinets with my family. Cocktail arcade cabinets are arcade cabinets where the screen faces up through a table top, and the players sit down on either side of it. We build them all from scratch with nicer materials and build quality than actual cocktail … Continue reading Arkanoid Artwork<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}