Project Blip

This blog is dedicated to a hobby shared by many, but discussed publicly by few.  A hobby that, while sure to score you copious amounts of geek-cred, will decrease your likelihood of mating by several orders of magnitude.  A hobby that can easily teeter towards obsession.  Thats right, folks! We’re building our very own custom home arcade!

What drives grown adults to dedicate so much of our time, money, and effort towards what basically amounts to a fancy way to play relatively-primitive entertainment software?  Perhaps we never gave up on a childhood fantasy: our very own arcade, that mystical device that can play any game imaginable.  That machine that would make us the coolest kid on the block. The one that would make our enemies green with envy and even draw the attention of our crushes.  

Perhaps we want to become the world’s best at something. At anything.

Or maybe the games of a bygone era remind us that often the simplest pleasures are the best.

With just a few PC components, a vast digital library of games from the mid-1970’s through the present, an old TV, some medium-density fiberboard, plexiglass, a prefabricated arcade control setup, lots of time, and a little piece of software called MAME, I’m starting down the road towards fulfilling my childhood dream.  Maybe, if its your dream too, you’ll come along for the ride.