Turnarcades
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Who they are
Turnarcades is a new company based in the West Midlands, England. Founded in 2004, they offer customised cabinets and arcade projects for people who have more specific ideas of what they want from an arcade machine. They are currently a 'home-build' setup, hand-building each project as the customer requests. Due to the projects not being machine-cut, the cost is kept down way below the prices of other cabinet builders. Quality is still superb and rivals that of mass-produced cabinets. This makes them suitable for both those on a budget and those with specific gaming tendencies. They are one of the few dedicated arcade builders in the UK, and the only one offering custom machines and modifications to the UK and more recently; Europe.
What they do
Turnarcades offers a range of set cabinet designs at set prices, ranging from bar-top machines to sit-down racing cabinets, from which the customer ambiguates on the design and pays accordingly. Every set design is priced as a 'turn-key machine', with a Pentium 3 PC, speakers, mouse, keyboard, set size CRT monitor, appropriate interface/keyboard encoder (usually I-Pac), speakers, a set control layout and a choice of colour scheme and marquee design. Cabinet finishing is primarily black, but the customer can also specify many modificatons for the finish. This includes:
- Joystick brands and colours
- Button colours
- Display size and type (CRT or LCD/TFT)
- Marquee/artwork design and lighting
- PC specification
- Sound system
- Control layout/additional controls
- Cabinet dimensions/custom shell work
Customers can also request customised projects, such as stand-alone control panels, 'Box Arcades' (a control panel housing a complete PC system), jukeboxes and other such games room entertainment.
Examples of set designs
Other custom work
Turnarcades also offers a range of other custom work, such as stand-alone control panels, one-off machines, console integration and self-contained control panel/PC units similar to the 'arcade-in-a-box' from the US. Again pricing varies dependant on the parts and labour required for each build.
Contact information
There is no current official web page for Turnarcades. However, requests for examples of custom work and prices can be requested at samshaw946 A hotmail D com and they also sell through ebay uk.
