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About this site
Welcome to The Arcade Art Museum. Here you'll find actual cabinet photos of some of your favorite games from MAME. To look at or for Mameover, TkMAME, Mame/W, MAME32, Femame 2 and MAME Wizard frontends. This is sure to be one of your favorite image collections. Enjoy!

How to Help
I'm always looking for missing pics to make the archive complete for the current release of MAME. Check the current text lists to see what's missing. If you have a cabinet pic that's not in the archive that *is* in Mame, please send it to me and I'll add it in the next update. If you own a cabinet, take a pic and send it to me. If you know of somewhere that has a cabinet (Cafe, Motel, Pizza Shop, Club, Bar, Casino, Bowling Alley, Neighbour's Backyard, Someone's Basement, Arcade Distributor, Arcade Repair Workshop, Classic Arcade or where-ever!), go there and take a pic and send it to me. Please help me to keep this the No. 1 site for Arcade Cabinet Pics.

Credits
Thanks to the following people for helping out or sending me cabinet pics/url's.
Duglis (a BIG BIG thanks for the original cabinet archive of about 150 cabinets), Peter Kos, Sheep, John Hardy IV, Robert Dunn, Chris Nelson, Jim Tauberg, pcom, Andrew Ryan, Chris Mader, Eric Anschuetz, Brian Deuel, Sean Naberhuis, Karl Helmer Torvmark, Robert Vernon, Richard Tims, Lando242, Darren Hatton, Jeff (Varth cab), Jason M, Toby Broyad, Al Kossow
If I have forgotten you, please email me and remind me what you sent and I'll put your name up here. Thanks :-)

News
31st December '00 Well, well, it's the last day of 2000, so I guess it's time for an update, the final one.....yes, they'll be no more.


well, no more in the year 2000 anyway ;-)
I've heard a few rumours that people are saying this site is dead.
Don't be fooled. This is *THE* arcade cabinet pic website and it's alive and kicking!
FYI, I've been collecting cabinet pics for about 5 years and my unsorted collection is in the vicinity of somewhere around 4000 pics. Of course, many of those are different pics of cabinets already in the archive, or unemulated games which can't be added to the 'Mame Cabinets Collection'.
But! I'm slowly sorting through those pics (besides doing other things) and this update is proof.
Here's another 347 cabinet pics! Some have been replaced with better pics, most are newly added and unique to this collection, and many of those have not been seen online before. Perhaps if I get enough requests, I'll put up a large 'unemulated' collection......

p.s. Hopefully the next update will be in less than 364 days   :-D
1st January '00 Here's another update. 111 cabs this time. Some have been replaced so the total is now 1172 pics !
I've decided to get rid of a few gaps by using some original cab pics for the massive amount of clones/bootlegs that exist, starting with Space Invaders clones/bootlegs, Galaxian clones/bootlegs and a few other games that were slight variants. I seriously doubt whether any dedicated or even conversion cabinets/marquees/sideart exists, and even if they do, I don't have pics and probably never will have pics, so this is the only solution, for now.

Previous News



Links
The Official Mame site (dead link) TheGuru's Unemulated Roms Database
The Internet Pinball Archive. (dead link) Game Archive.COM (1000's of Flyers + more !)
Videotopia Homepage (Travelling Arcade Show) Some guy who visited Videotopia in Washington, D.C. {Mirrored Locally for preservation}


Downloads (MAME)

For those who are new to this, download the zips and unpack them to your cabinets directory. Ensure you unpack them in order (that is 1,2,3,4 etc..) making sure you overwrite any files as you go. There's been alot of name changes along the way, and if you don't unpack the files in order, some newer/better pics will be overwritten with older/bad pics.
For those of you just getting the latest update, unpack it to your cabinets directory, overwriting any files if necessary.
File Size Date Updated
1 2 3 4 5 (Mame Cabinets - Split into 5 parts) 25317k Total 2nd August 1999
6 (Update #1) 3509k 14th August 1999
7 (Update #2) 7814k 2nd October 1999
8 (Update #3) 702k 4th October 1999
9 (Update #4) 3103k 3rd November 1999
10 (Update #5) 5249k 1st January 2000
11 (Update #6) 15228k 31st December 2000
missing.txt (List of Missing Cabinets) 36k 31st December 2000

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