I've always dreamnt of owning my own Jamma cabinet. I think the big appeal is the ease at owning one cab while having multiple jamma cards that you can "plug and play."
However, this just seems to easy to be true. Is it really that simple? If I went out and bought a Simpsons or TMNT cab, I could just buy another Jamma board and hot swap it? Any info and real experience would be fantastic. My wife and I live in a Chicago apartment, so this isn't going to happen for quite a while. However, she knows that one day I'll own my own cabinet. The whole mame-thing just seems like an easy way to promote my videogame attention deficit disorder and I would very much like to avoid that. Also, I want a real legit Konami cabinet.
There just isn't anything like having four guys with a couple beers slugging it out while playing X-Men. I've been lucky enough to have that experience once...Good times It almost is as good as remembering my brother and I avoiding dinner to play Simpsons and Street Fighter II at Fuddruckers (their burgers were average at best, but we insisted on going because of their games ). Ahh the memories.
EDIT: After actually looking on Google, I found a great Jamma Q&A. Hit the link for some good info:
http://www.jammaboards.com/jcenter_jammaFAQ.html