Greg Kennedy shows you how to make a DIY MAME cabinet project:
I started this project by taking stock of my components. Like any good hacker, I have a stack of spare PCs and monitors for occasions like this. I selected a set that was particularly hard to repurpose, due to its crappy CPU, use of expensive RDRAM, and then the monitor is a 13″ CRT. These specs would run a vertical cabinet with 4-way joystick nicely. The “modern” solution is to use some single board computer (say, Raspberry Pi) and an LCD. I’d rather not send e-waste off to the landfill, plus I’d have to pay for something I already have on hand!
Via Hacked Gadgets.
I think this looks infinitely better than the LCD builds that people are doing with SBCs. This is more “keeping it real”.
Power consumption… would land up costing way more than to buy energy efficient hardware.