There will be some difficulties in having an arcade "cabinet" set up
for home use.

The monitor that all of acrade games use are EGA monitors.  Most
home televisions are CGA (a step below EGA).  And more high power
computing games like BOTTS require VGA monitors.

Anyways, there are signal converters to convert RGB colors (so you
don't have to worry about the signal type CGA EGA or CGA) to NTSC
signals which is what "channel 3/4" is used (to connect to the TV
set like your home VCR).

That is the hard part to figure out for diplay.
Now for the game system itself is another story.

The game board, or PCBoard if you will, requires a special power supply
that takes 120V (direct outlet) to +12, +5, -5 volts and ground.

But, you can have one power supply and a set of controls in one box and
interchange the PCB itself -- all arcade games are like oversized Nintendo
game systems (or Sega or Atari - what ever you feel like playing).

Like signal converters for sale, there are universal controlers with a
power supply called "test box" (because all you do is plug in a game
to see if it works.  I don't remember what the prices are for these
components but they are NOT CHEAP.

All arcade PCB's are connected to the power supply, controllers, and
monitor by a cable called JAMMA -- which is a standard setup for the
connections.

If you really want to know where to get these items I do know where
to get them.  And I can give you references to the prices too.


Off the top of my head I think :

RGB->NTSC converters cost $100
Universal Controlers cost $700 for a niffy lookin 6 button controler
        or you can make one yourself
and games themselves cost from $40 (old games like SmashTV) to $1000 for
the moderately newer games to around $2000 for the newer games and also
for the price of a car ($25000+) you can get some of the new awsome game
consoles/sit-in's or what ever that looks like something from the army
with graphics done by people who didn't eat or sleep 1000 life times.


Yes these are not cheap but if you want the best you've got to pay the price.

Or just look at my "how to build your own arcade system" on my home page!
http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~nshin/PROJECTS/ARCADE/