Nah I don’t laugh. Collecting these systems is a viable hobby. I’m just old enough to have originally owned them all and I don’t care about physical copies. I just use ROMs and go to town. I’d be happy to give you some tips. To be honest, the Legends Ultimate is a great prebuilt cabinet with tons of supported software mods. You can add almost every old school arcade game and old school console games through snes/genesis. https://www.atgames.net/arcades/legends-ultimate/ But if you want to go down the rabbit hole I can help you there too. It’s just a question of time/money. My homemade cabinet has over 100k games but it’s $$$$ and a ****ton of time invested.
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