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Or you could make your own MAME machine for a fraction of the cost - Buy a cabinet for a generic game (or a non-working game) for like $50 (some guys make their own but frankly I don't see the point) then throw in like a $500 PC (plus monitor if the monitor is crap or if you don't want want to deal with the PC to arcade monitor issue) and you're good to go (maybe a couple hundred dollars is you want to mod up the control panel and add extra/specialised controllers like a spinner or track ball). Then just paint up the cabinet or apply decals...
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The cost associated with building a decent MAME cabinet(like this one)
add up quickly to a tidy sum.
If you really want to do it on the cheap just use your PC and this
Stu