Very cheap design. Used minimal hardware. I already had everything I needed except these few items. I purchased a VGA converter online (connect the PS1 to a monitor), some wood from Menards, and joysticks & pushbuttons from the local vending company.

Things left out of the original design was a marquee, front bezil, and lower door access. These were just left open.

About a year after original constuction, a marquee was added. Using large photopaper, a blacklight, and some weather stripping plastic I made another cheap fix. The smallest poke would have ruined it and eventually it was (transporting the cabinet laid down in a van + dog in vehicle).
A black curtain was also added to cover the lower cabinet, a vinyl shower curtain cut to size.

At the same time, I made the switch to PC emulation and an ipac keyboard encoder. Frontend was Mamewah. Now with thousands of games going back to the 70s, my creation was popular with the family and our basement rec room became a gathering point for my younger brother's friends.

This was the state it remained in till 2008 when renovation started.

Notebook Scans

My original misguided research (before I took all college those tech writing and drawing classes).