The person who built this is very proud of the fact that they didn't "harm" the millipede in any way by hanging this giant tumor of a control panel off the front of it. Hey, that's just great. Good for you.
But rather than try to blend the control panel in with art style and classic look of the carefully preserved millipede; they chose to use some sort of wanna be granite formica or something. They pushed the evelope even further by randomly throwing in buttons all over the god damn place and leaving the mounting plates exposed.
Many people who build a MAME box have a 'dedicated' four way stick for classic games that only understand 4 directions. This is all well and good. But wtf is with this? Three sticks, that are ALL 8way, and ALL have restrictor plates mounted under them? WHAT IS THE POINT? If your 4 way is just a restricted 8 way, why fuck things up with a third stick? Know of many 3 player games? DOYA? Rampart. Oh wait, that's _TRACKBALLS_. Xenophobe? Oh, hold up, that's on a horizontal monitor and would like like 2 specks of ass smashed into this small vertical montior. Genius. Fucking genius. Wasted a crapload of space for a 3rd stick that isn't even a 'real' 4way. Hallelujia.
23 buttons. Twenty MF Three. Not a single one of which seems to be placed in any sort of sane manner. The crazy mess in the middle looks like some sort of pyramid; maybe they're egyptian. This one looks even more like a skittle spill than the previous abomination with too many buttons, due to the rainbow of god damn fruit flavors. Maybe they were hoping it would start raining candy like in the TV commercials. That shit is real, you know.
What I really don't get is that this cabinet was featured on the Discovery Channel in Canada. What the hell. Oh, well, I guess they make a big deal out of the special olympics too. That probably helps to explain things.
AND IT RUNS ON LUNIX!! NYAR!!