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Tore apart a unnessesary wooden bracket inside my MK2 cabinet....and this is what I found.
Anyone know what game this is? Very curious what arcade cab sacraficed its life for mine...  :cry:




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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 11:19:22 am »
Looks familiar, but can't place it.  FWIW, a cabinet probably didn't die for yours.  What probably happened was a panel that was already prepped for a cabinet got damaged so it was cut up and used inside yours and several others.  My D&D pinball has a couple brackets inside that are painted for the same reason.

I assume that disassembling a cab to use the wood would take too much time.  I suspect a cab that was damaged beyond repair after (partial) assembly would have met the furnace!

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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 11:58:28 am »
Pff, of COURSE it died for an MK2 cabinet. Seriously, Flawless Victory, Fatality.

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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 12:55:28 pm »
Pff, of COURSE it died for an MK2 cabinet. Seriously, Flawless Victory, Fatality.

Thats gonna be the "post of the day" for sure.  :applaud:
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 01:58:37 pm »
Did that piece happen to be in the control panel box making it difficult to get to the player2 latch?

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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 03:16:15 pm »
Did that piece happen to be in the control panel box making it difficult to get to the player2 latch?

probably inside the coin tray door. My KI2 cab had those, I think my KI1 does, MKII just has black pieces of wood there.


its cut up scraps, they didnt destroy cabs to build cabs, they just used leftovers.
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2011, 04:20:54 pm »
A Blitz cab I used to have had a bottom made from Smash TV's side. I was hoping my Smash TV cabinet had a Blitz bottom, but it did not come full circle  :P
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2011, 06:48:34 pm »
I originally thought it might be something like Missile Command or Mad Planets but im pretty sure its not. The colours and the shapes do look familiar though and that big planet decal is driving me nuts because I know I have seen it before.
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2011, 08:55:41 pm »
I originally thought it might be something like Missile Command or Mad Planets but im pretty sure its not. The colours and the shapes do look familiar though and that big planet decal is driving me nuts because I know I have seen it before.

This was a really common Bally/Midway practice. Other people have posted similar pics, and my Power Drive cross members are made from a hacked up Rampage.

If the MKII is in its original cabinet, I'd start looking at art from other Midway games of the same year or year before. I don't think you'll find that they were using 10 year old hacked up cabinets from another manufacturer, they were using spares and damaged cabs from their own recent production.

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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2011, 10:23:00 pm »
Popeye pinball: lower corner near front



Cabinet recycling was a common practice at Lenc-Smith. The cabinets were made out of silk screened pieces of wood, which were cut out after screening. Those that weren't made into cabinets were used for inner pieces.
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2011, 10:26:37 pm »
Good eye!
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2011, 10:29:32 pm »
Hi all...

its just a small rail that the PCB mounting mdf board secures to...for my current project I didnt need piece there...it was held on with wood glue and brad nails...when I pulled it off I noticed the grafix on the other side....

heres where it went...(old pic, currently re-doing cab)



EDIT: Thanks Q*Bert_OP!!! Youre 100% right...I would of never thought it came from a pinball machine!!!  

I know why they hacked the popeye pinball machine...lol

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/popeye/popeye_pinball.htm

to quote the web site:

The vast majority of players rank this as one of the worse pinball machines ever made.  Compared to its moden day
rivals it was lacking.  However, it is a great theme for children and parents who dont think Olive Oil in a bikini is too
bad for the kids at home.  True hugging hippies will love the fact the Popeye is trying to save endangered species.
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2011, 11:00:50 am »
I glanced through KLOV yesterday looking at Atari, Williams and Midway.  I was thinking that it was probably a Williams game based on the style of art (lots of white background), but none of the video arcade games had anything that matched.  They had a bazillion pinball games, but I didn't want to look through them.  Nice find!

Interesting how MK2 was released in 1993, but Popeye pinball wasn't released until 1994.  How long was MK2 in production?  Think that Popeye bracket could be from a prototype silk screening?

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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2011, 11:49:01 am »
MK2 was in production for a while. My Star Trek Next Gen pinball (04-XX-1994) has part of the front of an MK2 control panel box in it. I've also owned a dedicated Blitz '99 with Medieval Madness sides in it  :(
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2011, 11:51:41 am »
MK2 was in production for a while. My Star Trek Next Gen pinball (04-XX-1994) has part of the front of an MK2 control panel box in it. I've also owned a dedicated Blitz '99 with Medieval Madness sides in it  :(

Now I have to take pix of mine see if you can ID it.   Im VERY impressed. You get a chance to mail out that MK1 board?
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Re: Name this game (w/pic) <-old school arcade gurus might get this
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2011, 11:58:17 am »
Wow....I would have never guessed that clip of art would have belonged to a popeye pinball.

And wow...I would have never guessed someone could ruin the popeye franchise that badly.

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« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2011, 11:59:55 am »
MK2 was in production for a while. My Star Trek Next Gen pinball (04-XX-1994) has part of the front of an MK2 control panel box in it. I've also owned a dedicated Blitz '99 with Medieval Madness sides in it  :(

Now I have to take pix of mine see if you can ID it.   Im VERY impressed. You get a chance to mail out that MK1 board?


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