I am a big fan of old arcade games. I have a pretty deft hand at Asteroids, and I love Tempest. We have a very good retro video arcade here in Portland -- Ground Kontrol, and I very much enjoy going there and wasting a few quarters on a Saturday morning.

I have a desire to (start laughing now...) build an arcade game cabinet for my house. Probably a sit down cabinet (what they call a cocktail cabinet...), with a glass top. Naturally it's going to have a spinner control for Tempest, and a joystick, and several buttons. I would like to have a controller to play Star Wars as well, but that would probably just clutter things up.

I have 10 other projects to finish before I get to this one though.

Oh, and the purpose of this whole thing, arcadecontrols.com has the best set of tutorials and sources for parts that I've seen for doing this kind of thing - well worth a look.