The Toronto Indie Game Retrofitted Arcade Cabinet project is underway, and hopefully will have a better name before its fall launch. Jph has sourced a place in Oakville that sells cabinets for $100, so now we have to find the following hardware. Anyone want to donate or know where we can get a really cheap:

• monitor (LCD or CRT, let us know screen size and dimensions)
• PC (preferably above a P2)
• speakers
• keyboard
• powerbar

The project, if it’s not entirely clear, is to retrofit an old arcade cabinet and put modern indie games by Toronto creators on it and make it available to the public in a bar/gallery/coffee shop. As Jph said at the last Social, “you’d walk by a bunch of familiar games, and then there’d be this game you’d never seen…”

Colin has offered to look into sponsorship/venues for it, and Nadine has offered to do interface and cabinet design, so we’re on our way with this. But feel free to get in touch if you’d like to contribute in some way… maybe you have a large, arcade cabinet sized vehicle for instance?