Welcome to Classic Arcade Cabinets
The purpose of this website is to preserve the "arcade cabinets". Video arcade games have been around since the early 1970s. The cabinets were produced with the cheapest materials possible and never intended to last. Add into the equation 40+ years of warehousing costs, water damage, humidity, and transportation, and it is not surprising that many of the earlier cabinets have been scrapped when they start to fall apart. When these cabinets get scrapped, many time they are scavenged for parts and the parts are put on a shelf. The end result is that often you can find parts for a game, but not actually the game cabinet.
The purpose of this site is to preserve the game cabinets. Cabinets are painstakingly traced and detailed parts plans are created. This process usually takes over 6 hours per set of plans (for small cabinets). While the plans are listed in CNC friendly formats, most users of this site are reproducing arcade cabinets by hand since all of the dimensions are in the DXF files.
This is a community effort. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the site. Additionally, if you have an arcade build plans are willing to donate to the cause, your help is greatly appreciated. This is my contribution to the "hobby".
The purpose of this site is to preserve the game cabinets. Cabinets are painstakingly traced and detailed parts plans are created. This process usually takes over 6 hours per set of plans (for small cabinets). While the plans are listed in CNC friendly formats, most users of this site are reproducing arcade cabinets by hand since all of the dimensions are in the DXF files.
This is a community effort. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the site. Additionally, if you have an arcade build plans are willing to donate to the cause, your help is greatly appreciated. This is my contribution to the "hobby".
Special ThanKS
3-23-2019 - BYOAC HaRuMaN and KLOVer Olivarium for confirming build plans for Q*Bert, Mad Planets, and Q*Bert Qubes
11-20-2018 - Patrick Samuel for submitting the Universal cabinet plans
7-5-2018 - Drew L. for verification and pictures of the Star Castle plans.
7-5-2018 - Peter L. for verification and pictures of the Atari System 1 plans.
6-26-2018 - Peter L. for verification and pictures of Track and Field.
6-18-2018 - KLOVer IVANX for the verification and pictures of the Moon Patrol plans.
2-5-2018 - William Stillwell ( Hamster/KI4SWY ) for verification of the Defender plans and build pictures.
11-20-2018 - Patrick Samuel for submitting the Universal cabinet plans
7-5-2018 - Drew L. for verification and pictures of the Star Castle plans.
7-5-2018 - Peter L. for verification and pictures of the Atari System 1 plans.
6-26-2018 - Peter L. for verification and pictures of Track and Field.
6-18-2018 - KLOVer IVANX for the verification and pictures of the Moon Patrol plans.
2-5-2018 - William Stillwell ( Hamster/KI4SWY ) for verification of the Defender plans and build pictures.
Special thanks to the contribution by: KLOVER cjoli for his Dragon's Lair build.
All graphics/images/cabinet designs on this site are copyrighted by the their original owners. ClassicArcadeCabinets.com makes no claim to said such rights and provides the cabinet designs for collectors and hobbyist of the original arcade coin-op machines. Images and graphics are for reference only. Any copyright holder wanting their images or reproductions removed from this site should contact us and we will immediately remove these images.
SITE LAST UPDATED December 5, 2019
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