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As others have mentioned, storing a small PC in the cabinet should be easy.
(You can get an HTPC "Home Theater PC" that is tiny and will fit)
IF you HAVE to use Win95, you can run a Virtual machine for free in "Virtual Box", otherwise, Win XP should be able to run it in "Compatability Mode" just fine. So that brings you to display options.
What I would do is check to see how video is carried from the arcade's board to the screen.
There are adapter boxes that will transfer analog signals to VGA. So if there are cables that transfer it to VGA, just put a flat monitor in there, make the PC one input, and the arcade another. (Then the monitor is a switch, simple!) IF you CANNOT turn the arcade signal to usable digital, then you can use a vid card in the PC that will output to analog (composite video) that you can hook into the old school tube. I DO NOT like this option as CRT resolution SUCKS and any text on the screen will look like shit, but to each their own. Either one of these works and keeps things pretty simple.
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