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Newsbytes: Arcade 1up Pro, Funhouse 2. Leave A Response » Click here to cancel reply. Name required Email required Website. Our Social Media Channels. Arcade Heroes Newsletter. Subscribe to Blog via Email Get notified in your email as soon as we publish a new post! Comments Tags. We Won A Medal. Arcade Heroes on Twitter My Tweets. More Ways To Interact. Hold craft foam over a stove burner for about 15 seconds until it becomes hot and flimsy. Using your hands, give it the curved shaped and hold it for about 15 seconds until it cools down.

It will stay in this shape after it cools down. I heated and shaped each piece of the claw separately then glued them together and painted it with a silver metallic paint. The joystick is a pair of toy nun-chucks from the dollar store that I snapped in half and painted the tip red. Whack a Mole: The mallet was made by wrapping a can in black craft foam and the handle is the other end of the dollar store nunchucks used for the claw machine.

The holes are lined with black paper and fabric pockets on the inside. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Mark out a rectangle that is a little smaller than the bag. For me, it was 1. Carefully cut out the rectangle. Now grab a glue stick and start with one side of the bag. Put a line of glue along the edge of one side of the screen opening and align the bag on top.

This will hold the bag in place while you secure it. Cut strips of scrap cardboard. Put hot glue along the length of it and place the strip across the plastic bag along the edge of the screen opening. Make sure that the strip touches the cardboard on both ends because the hot glue can melt the bag. Next do the side of the screen opposite the one you just did. Pull the bag tight and secure in the same fashion. The top panel of the screen will connect to the top of the body compartment and the bottom panel will be the control panel.

For my build, I needed the screen to come out from the body a little to make the image as large as possible on the screen so I marked a line at half of the panel and scored it from the back side so that it would bend there easily. We need to set the final location for the projector and battery pack, as well as the mirror and screen angles.

I placed the cut off panel of the cereal box inside and pulled it out a bit to expand the area I could use, so I could move the projector back some, which makes for a bigger image. The projector has a little metal part that sticks out the bottom so it cant sit flat.

Cut off a bit on the end and push the projector into it, This will give it a stable surface. Set up your mirror and put your battery pack right on the edge of the open end, with the projector right in front of it.

Turn it all on and grab your screen. Play with the angles of the screen and the mirror until you are satisfied. The bottom flap of the screen should not move, you should just be able to tilt the screen forward and backward.

If the angle of your mirror has changed, mark it. Roll some tape and put it on the bottom and sides of the box on the line you marked and press the mirror into place. This was enough to hold it for me. Use tape to secure the projector and battery pack as well as you can. Now we need to make our housing box a bit sturdier before we attach the screen. Take some really stiff good cardboard and hot glue one piece across the top of the housing right over the battery pack, one under the housing box parallel with the first piece, and one from end to end long ways on the bottom.

This gives it the strength it needs to support all the weight. Now you can hot glue the bottom panel of the screen in place. It should connect near the end of the housing box, so that most of the panel is free to work with. So, when we add the projector housing box to the build, we are going to need some support where it meets the body. Hot glue probably wont be good enough.

You will need a helping hand here. Hold the projector housing against the body with the top half of the top panel of the screen resting on the top of the body box. It is good to have it all on, so you can check the angle of the screen and the picture. When you get it aligned where you want it, have a friend mark the corners of the projector box on the body and the line where the top panel rests on the top of the body box. Now cut a hole out that is very slightly smaller than the box.

Try to fit the projector housing box end into the hole. If it wont go in, make the hole bigger. It should be tough to get in so that it fits snugly, We aren't connecting it right now though.

Next step. Find a box that will work. You will need only 3 sides. I used the rest of the box I used for the screen. It needs to be as wide as the body compartment, deep enough to sit the projector housing against one side with the mirror side of the box extending a little past it. See photo. Now the projector housing should fit in the box with the control panel of the screen extending slightly over the cut side of the box. Sit the pacman game in the center of the control panel an inch or two away from the edge, so that it overlaps the box below and trace around it.

Now cut a rectangle into the box below the game so that you can push the game down farther into the hole. I bought a cheap set of hinges which I used to attach the door to the box. Just align the hinged on the door and push the screws through, Add a bit of hot glue to the back of the screws to hold in place.

Now cut a hole and add the lock and key. Push the box up against the body and play with the screen angle again. When you are happy, mark where the screen meets the sides of the box.

Hot glue along the seams on both sides of the build where the sides of the box meet the screen. You need to insert the projector housing into the hole you made and push the box flush with the body, as well as align the top panel of the screen on the top of the body AND hot glue it all in place. Hot glue everywhere the two sections meet. My body compartment was much too tall for my game build so I had to trim it down.

I did it the hard way by gluing everything first. I had to rest it on a plastic shelf thing in order to do so. Not recommended if you can help it. I was originally going to use yellow foam board for this, but it was 1.

I ended up using cardboard. Just find 2 sections of cardboard large enough to cover the entire side of the build. Hold it up to the side of the build and mark where it meets. The side panels of the game are rounded and higher in the front than in the back, so draw this out on the panels. Spray paint it white and let it dry. Hot glue the side panels on. This is kinda tricky cause its such a larger area to cover that the glue dries before you can get it on.

You will have to go in sections and apply extra along the edges. Cut a strip of cardboard that is about 3. This will fit at the top of the game.