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Power
A four way adapter provided power to the
computer, TV, speakers and
marquee light. The flex was cut midway and the plug end fed through a
hole in the floor to a switched fused connector mounted beneath the
coin door; the socket end was wired up to the connector and fed back
inside the cabinet. The connector also allows connection of the earth
leads (unlike a light switch). The PC is set up to boot up when the
power is switched on so a single flick of the switch turns on the whole
cabinet.
 Outside  Inside Artwork
To design the control panel our goal was to make
it look as good as
possible with no artistic ability. A simple vector drawing program
Mayura Draw (www.mayura.com) was used to design the
graphics and printed directly onto three sheets of glossy inkjet photo
paper. Held in place by the polystyrene this created a gap the
thickness of the joystick metal screw-plate which was filled around the
edge with spare polystyrene strips.
  
  The most complex design was the marquee which
began life on Word Art to
get the comic ring with shadows lettering style with squashed up
letters. This was done in yellow and then again in blue. For further
editing the yellow and blue logos were cut and paste into Mayura Draw
to make the top section coloured blue look as though it was behind the
bottom of the ring in yellow. This made the shadows look unnatural so
the front and back were resized and the shadows coloured to make it
look as though there are two concentric rings. The marquee was
completed with the addition of some lame clip-art and printed onto
photo-paper. A mask was cut from black card to stop the black looking
grey when illuminated from behind and the whole lot mounted between the
polystyrene marquee holders.
 The television was hidden with bezel cut from
black card and held in
place by the polystyrene sheet.
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