This turned out really nicely @ArsInvictus , it feels like an original cabinet! The marquee is great and I think the red is a really nice touch as well.
Such a cool game deserves a custom cabinet!!!
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Very nice @walter.farmacia! I can use this! Is there any chance you can show more of the bottom of the control panel? move it up a little bit?
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thanks! @ArsInvictus of course you can edit it and make it more beautiful, I used this reference photo
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Gain Ground (Sega – 1988)
Gain Ground combines action and real time strategy in a way few arcade games did, with a huge set of playable characters and levels that require both reflexes and planning. It most resembles Gauntlet, one of its key inspirations, but each level is a single screen and requires you to figure out the best combination of warriors and tactics to defeat all the enemies and/or get all your warriors to the exit. The strategy aspect is not deep, it’s almost more of a puzzle game, but it does require more thinking as the levels progress.
This one was an interesting challenge to adapt to a vertical arcade format, as the original cabinet was an enormous three-player machine, so I reimagined it in a more standard format while maintaining all of the original artwork and character info. The MAME version has two screen sizes and includes a darker version. (For comparison, this is the original cabinet, in somewhat worn form.)
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Great sound effects on this one, as with so many Williams classics. Hadn’t heard of this game. Wonderful job with the marquee, bezel and CPO, Thoggo. Thanks for the fun!
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Pac-Man (Namco (Midway published) - 1980)
Updated look and packaging.
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Super Pac-Man (Namco (Midway Published) - 1982)
I’m not sure I ever saw this in the arcade back when it came out in 1982, despite the ubiquity of the original and Ms. Pac-Man at the time. I haven’t spent much time playing this, but the extra dimensions of “flight” and eating keys to open doors and eat fruit was probably a bit confusing to players used to the simplicity of the original game. That said, reviews of this game say it’s a great game in it’s own right once you understand the strategy.
I restored the marquee provided by @MrDo (thank you as always!) for this one.
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Ms. Pac-Man (Midway - 1982)
This was actually a mod-kit for the original Pac-Man created by a group of MIT dropouts who found they could make tons of money modding games like Missile Command and Space Invaders to make them more challenging. For more of the back story and interviews with the actual developers, check out the documentary High Score on Netflix.
Due to legal action from Atari, they were required to present the game to Midway, who decided to purchase it and released it as Ms. Pac-Man. The reviews of this game were laudatory at the time and it was considered by many to be a significant improvement over the original. It went on to become one of the most popular arcade games ever made.
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Looks really nice Walter! That’s definitely a game we should get in the collection.
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I hope you like it, NBA Showtime can already be played on MAME, but I don’t have the bezel and the marquee
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Thanks for your contributions, Walter. Looking great! Ars, I love your passion for preserving relatively rare games, but it’s also nice to see some classics get a beautiful update (PAC-trio above).
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I hope you like it, but I don’t have the bezel and the marquee
Thank you very much @Thoggo, your work is amazing !!!
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Thanks for contributing these control panels @walter.farmacia! I’ll be using them to complete the overlays for these games. I believe I have the marquees for these, though I will need to restore them in some cases. It might take a little time to get to them, but I definitely will 
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Great stuff @walter.farmacia, thank you for posting! Wrestlemania is on my list to put together in the near future, I’d definitely like to use your CPO render for that. Not sure if there’s a way to actually post PNGs on this forum, that would be helpful, though not essential…
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Batsugun (Toaplan - 1993)
Another overlay in the Toaplan series of shooters. This is the last game produced by Toaplan before they closed shop (though the same designers and developers went on to found Cave, where they continued to develop and evolve the bullet-hell shooter genre). Batsugun is considered by many to be the first of the manic shooters.
I used the same template here as Dogyuun and created another custom marquee based on the arcade flyers.
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Thank you very much @ArsInvictus, I hope you do it to have it in my collection, your works are amazing
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