One great accessory for your home games room, and one which packs a lot of fun into a small space, is an arcade machine but buying one can easily set you back 4 figures and may not come loaded with all the games you want to play. The solution? Build your own!

Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine by John St. Clair is jam packed with information and step by step guides on building an arcade machine from the ground up with diagrams, directions, plans, and materials lists which will bring your own arcade machine project to life.

The book will walk your through complicated tasks like building or setting up a pre-built game controller, choosing materials and performing the woodworking tasks to build the cabinet, configuring the computer or game console to believe it is an arcade game and more to get your project up and running as a fully functioning arcade machine loaded with hundreds of your favourite games.

The attached CD-Rom also includes the MAME32 software to bring classic games like Frogger, Pacman, Galaga, Space Invaders etc. to life on your machine and enable you to relive all those 80’s classics as well as design graphics to give life to your cabinet and much more.

The book costs under £20 but if you’d rather save the cash then the internet is also jam packed with information about building your arcade machine as many hobbyist arcade designers and builders have put their own projects, many too with step-by-step plans, online for you to see as well as the finished results.