Game on!

With some excitable chatter, I enticed Jenny into the shed and stood beaming with glee as she took on a game of Uo Poko ("Puzzle Uo Poko").

I noted that having the windscreen in actually improved the bass sound from the wooffer - maybe it acts as a sound surface or something, but you know what, it was great.

I went on playing into the night and, amongst other things, totally trounced my Galaga high score. That game rocks.

Jenny finally ejected me verbally at 10:30 as I needed to be up at 6:15 for a trip to Cambridge the next day.

So, if I can sort out that bezel, add a few touches of black masking tape, improve the back door hinges, create a holster for the light gun, clamp the coin-encoder wires down, hook the wire up to the door, connect the 12v molex to the coin slot light, airbrush some side art and black out/cover the edges of the monitor and its power LED..

It plays and it plays well. From here on in pretty much everything is a bonus. I think can safely say it's fit for purpose and move on to the final details.