Date: July 30th 2010

Lots of people are making their own games these days -- point-and-click tools like Scratch and GameMaker are making it more accessible for non-programmers, and it's easy to get your game out there via the internet. But wouldn't it be even cooler to get you and your friends' games out there on an old-school arcade cabinet?

The old cabinets are generally made to play one specific game, but you can re-fit it with a PC and a display and wire up the existing controls to make playing new games possible. Many people have been doing this to run emulators of the classic games -- MAME cabinets can run hundreds of old games on a single cabinet. The Hand Eye Society, Toronto's videogame culture collective, wanted to do a similar thing, but with locally made games. They debuted the Torontron, which plays six hand-crafted games by Toronto indies, at the last Canzine. Jph, who did the retrofitting, takes us through the steps he took.

Read on...

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