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3-D Animator Designs His Own Head-to-Head Video Cabinet

When 3-D animator Gerald Abraham converted his garage into a professional martial arts gym, there was one piece of equipment he had to build himself — a head-to-head video game cabinet. “In Japan, competition games like Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter generally have head-to-head cabinets and I wanted to recreate that feel at home with […]

When 3-D animator Gerald Abraham converted his garage into a professional martial arts gym, there was one piece of equipment he had to build himself -- a head-to-head video game cabinet.

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"In Japan, competition games like Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter generally have head-to-head cabinets and I wanted to recreate that feel at home with my own setup," Gerald explained to Apartment Therapy LA.

Gerald used his 3-D modeling background to mock up his own cabinet model and handed the plans to a trusted cabinet maker in Van Nuys.

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The finished entertainment center houses a PS3, alongside a PC running an AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor, with 2-Gig of RAM and a NVDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Video Card, all networked to his main computer systems inside the house for complete integration. (Wipe the drool.)