Since I was a kid (however I still am), I've always wanted my own Arcade Machine in my own home. Playing and seeing these machines in the 80's & 90's was always a thrill. The graphics was beyond the current C64 and Amiga at the date, at least I thought so.

Some final screenshots of the finished machine. During the first half of 2007, the cabinet side artwork was finalized, but never printed (yet).
666 days construction & Timeline

The technical & functional aspect for SOMAC is far beyond of those in a real Arcade Machine and those other homebuilt or rearranged cabinets made by other amateurs like me out there.

It's alphabetically sorted in a 3D Matrix style world, with search possibilities, bookmarks, change genre for current game and delete game if needed. Keyboard/trackerball and joystick operated.

This software is running on the second computer with a touchscreen. It connects to the 3D Matrix Core Center and transfers data and receive inputs via RS-232. On this one might select hardware to emulate and what genre to play in. The software also have the ability to store bookmarks of favourite games for easier access for the player.

SGIL - SOMAC Game Intelligent Listing database is available for download right here. This database is almost an exact copy of what I'm using on my SOMAC.

Doing a building project like the SOMAC could not been done without some 3D modelling and prewiz.

Here is the full range of snapshots taken during the almost 2 year construction of SOMAC.

Concept from Christmas 2003. I admit, I can't hand draw.

The "SOMAC - Bible of Games" book series (5 of them) initially started out as personal manual for my homebuilt arcade machine to display all of the 26206 screenshots in a nice presentable book to allow a more old way of finding "that" game to play on my Arcade Machine.
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Arcade / Coin-op
Commodore Amiga
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
Sega Game Gear
Sega Master System

The "SOMAC - Bible of Games" book series (5 of them) initially started out as personal manual for my homebuilt arcade machine to display all of the 26206 screenshots in a nice presentable book to allow a more old way of finding "that" game to play on my Arcade Machine.
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Game Boy Advance
NEC TurboGrafx-16
Nintendo 64
Standard PC
PlayStation One
Sega Genesis
Super Nintendo

The "SOMAC - Bible of Games" book series (5 of them) initially started out as personal manual for my homebuilt arcade machine to display all of the 26206 screenshots in a nice presentable book to allow a more old way of finding "that" game to play on my Arcade Machine.
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Nintendo
Commodore 64 (0-F, Part 1 of 3)

The "SOMAC - Bible of Games" book series (5 of them) initially started out as personal manual for my homebuilt arcade machine to display all of the 26206 screenshots in a nice presentable book to allow a more old way of finding "that" game to play on my Arcade Machine.
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Commodore 64 (G-R, Part 2 of 3)

The "SOMAC - Bible of Games" book series (5 of them) initially started out as personal manual for my homebuilt arcade machine to display all of the 26206 screenshots in a nice presentable book to allow a more old way of finding "that" game to play on my Arcade Machine.
Download Bible of Games 5/5

Commodore 64 (S-Z, Part 3 of 3)
Alphabetical Listing

Kickstarter projects in general makes me wanna puke!
SOMAC - Bible of Games

During my 2 year project for the SOMAC, I had to find a lot of information regarding emulator software, screenshots and info/filename naming for my SGIL Database.