Time for some big decisions - Part 2

It didn't take long to find a piece of chipboard and to cut it to the correct width, the plan was to use one piece to hold the monitor in position and another for the control buttons and joystick.               

As previously mentioned, I'm working without any plans, but that didn't stop me from mounting an old NEC monitor (a 19" VGA model), where I though the angle looked right and where there was enough room to fit a bezel in front of the screen.

 

With the monitor in place I used the remainder of the chipboard to create what will eventually become the control panel.  Then with the second shelf I cut a front control panel where I planned to mount start and coin buttons and a top piece and attached those.

So far so good, it's now I faced my first major decision, how to create the marquee at the top of the cabinet.  Most traditional arcade cabinets have a backlit marquee with custom graphics however I had been reading about video marquees and so I decided to go down that road.
 

I think the top monitor was something to do with EPOS, it's been in my garage for a long time but reading up on the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi 4 I was confident that I could drive both screens with the top screen displaying a custom marquee screen for each game or system currently active.