Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Smash TV Restoration - Sort Of
flashiv:
I got this cab at Midwest Gaming Classic on 3/27/10. It cost me $500.00, so I didn't get a steal, but didn't feel like I got robbed either. I know it isn't an original Smash TV cab, but I am going to "restore" it to look as close as possible to the cab on the Smash TV promo flyer. Since this isn't an original Smash TV cab I will be only using re-pro art, so I don't destroy any original art on a non-original cab. The only exception to this is I have an original marquee. I will be trying to find Smash TV art work I can get printed. Anyone who has any they care to share, please let me know. This is my first cab, not counting my MAME cab I built (which peeked it's ugly head in the pics and needs an overhaul ;D). Also the game show host doesn't say his famous phrases. I assume it's something not hooked up right on the board. I just learned JAMMA boards existed only maybe a year ago, so I know nothing about them. Here's hoping I don't fry anything. :cry: I will be asking many many questions to the many wise people or is that wiseguys :laugh2: here about JAMMAs and such stuff. Does anyone know what this cab originally was? Attached are pictures of this beauty and a pic of the flyer.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: flashiv on April 07, 2010, 05:31:08 pm ---Does anyone know what this cab originally was?
--- End quote ---
Looks like a Williams Sinistar to me.
flashiv:
It sure does look like Sinistar is a good candidate. I noticed a "1983" stamped on the inside of the cab after I posted yesterday. I can't put a pic of that up yet as my arm is still in a sling. But as soon as I can get someone to push it out I will take a pic of that too. It looks like Sinistar was released in 1982 so that might jive if it was a from a later batch. If anyone has any other ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks Maximum. :cheers:
Q*Bert_OP:
It could also be a Robotron...when you can, open up the control panel and take a picture of the inside of it.
SirPeale:
I'm betting Robotron (Smash TV's big brother). Sinistar has a vertical monitor.
I would leave that thing pretty much as-in. That's a damn good conversion.
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