Thank you all for the comments, that was a really warm welcome!
amazing work!!! did i understand this correctly that you programmed the game from scratch?
and by the way: WHO ARE YOU?
OK, my name is Sjaak, 44 years old and i'm from the Netherlands.
I started with the 'Arcade Life Style' about 3 years ago. My first project was a scratch build Galaga cabinet for two players. After that I built a pac man style cocktail with a 'Space Paranoids' (from the movie tron) theme.
I run a small company that builds arcade cabinet replicas and custom cabinets. I am currently working on a Galaga style cabinet and a Donkey Kong Replica.
The Pac Man Battle Royale was sort of a challenge from myself to see if I could build a working replica using only pictures, videos and information I found on the internet.
Some information about the cabinet:
- I wrote the software in C# using the XNA framework from Microsoft. The graphics for the game were done in Photoshop and I used After Effects for some of the animations in the game.
- The game runs at 60 fps @ 1920x1080 on a P4 G860
- I found the manual for the game online and from that I was able to guestimate most of the measurements.
- There is a 32" inch Full HD LG television in the cabinet.
- I used an Arduino for control of the led lights in the buttons. The arduino is controlled from the game software.
- Instead of leg levelers I put the game on wheels, because it's very heavy.
Yooooo.....this is impressive !!! Quite Incidently I was looking at the recently added flyers of the game on the arcade flyer archive and thought it looked actually damn cool as a modern "cocktail" and was actually thinking about contacting an operator for the next Eurocade to borrow one 
Impressive if you wrote that software, you better watch out for Bandai-Namco now
You can add my cabinet to the list for next year. I haven't distributed the software so I should be ok (fingers crossed)
By the way, where did you get that Galaga poster, it looks very nice?
I saw the poster somewhere and made one of my own. If you want I can send you a 70cm x 100cm (200 dpi) image for printing.
Give us more info ! Are you ready to share your plans, artwork and software ?
I don't think I can share any of this publicly, because of copyright issues.If someone actually wants to build one of these, they could contact me via PM.
