SurfaceTension releases incredibly overpriced MAME coffee table

We've seen at least a couple coffee table MAME cabinets — often times, the guts of an old PC crammed into an umlaut-spittled IKEA fiberboard cheapie — and every time, there's a tug between the allure of a coffee table that plays video games and the bothersome fact that very few people are really going to want to sit on the floor, stare down at the screen from an odd angle and use a joystick in a drawer to play a game on one.

As such, there's a definite upper limit on what you'd want to spend on a MAME coffee table, and that upper limit is way, way below the nearly five grand SurfaceTension wants. It would be overpriced at half as much: bog standard furniture design with a 19-inch LCD, a Shuttle PC, 2GB RAM, dual core processor, 160GB hard drive, Happ arcade buttons, 2 control sets, Happ illuminated trackball, volume controls and Sanwa joysticks built-in.

If you're willing to spend five grand, just buy yourself a real MAME cabinet already.

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