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| mrclean:
So I finally tracked down a nice dedicated Taito Ghosts n' Goblins cabinet last night. I'm pretty excited to add this one into my collection and it's perfect timing with Halloween right around the corner. So the first night I play the game in my garage with the lights off and noticed that the instructions on the bezel almost glow in an eerie way from just enough light coming from the marquee light filtering through the speaker grill. So I started to read the instructions on the bezel and it says "Sir Michael" ?! I could sworn the whole time it was "Sir Arthur" ? Did his name get changed once Ghouls n Ghosts came out 3 years later? Or perhaps only the dedicated Taito cabinets said sir Michael? maybe an early serial number batch ? I could of sworn his name was always Arthur. Any one else care to chime in ? So I went to Mr. Do's aka James's In-Game MAME Art downloaded the bezel for Ghosts 'n Goblins, and sure enough it said sir Michael also. Apparently Phet on the KLOV forums also noticed the same thing 4 years ago.. http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?p=177054#post177054 Now for something even creepier. I put the bezel image into photo shop and randomly cropped the bezel to show the instructions, and hit properties and it said the height of the image was "666 pixels". That's just really creeping me out. Needless to say I'm glad I found a nice working DEADicated cabinet to add to my collection. |
| mytymaus007:
According to this link Capcom is the company that made ghost n goblins not taito http://ghostsngoblins.wikia.com/wiki/Sir_Arthur |
| DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on October 24, 2011, 08:19:44 pm ---According to this link Capcom is the company that made ghost n goblins not taito http://ghostsngoblins.wikia.com/wiki/Sir_Arthur --- End quote --- Taito had manufacturing and distribution rights in the US (their logo is also behind the joystick in the OP's pic). Wild guess: Taito just didn't put too much effort in getting the story correct. This was at a time when we didn't put too much backstory in our video games - just quick little "this is why you're doing what you're doing" bits. |
| ragnar:
You know how retired people buy cars from their youth right now and that has driven prices of 60s era cars up. Is this going to happen to arcade cabinets in 20 years? |
| mrclean:
Yes of course I know Capcom made the game, and distributed the rights to Taito, as well as Romstar. I personally think that the Romstar version has a way better marquee IMO: I think that the artists got lazy and just used the bezel / marquee images and just re-sized everything. Over all the entire cabinet flows pretty well, but for whatever reason I think the romstar marquee is a billion times better. And than some whacky bootleg versions: I think however the dedicated Taito versions bezel is nicer than the generic / bootleg ones. Along with the control panel on the Tatio cabinet is nicer than the generic romstar text overlay with the button stickers. Example of a williams cab with the romstar ghosts 'n goblins kit installed: And the instruction card on that kit : is different than this one: --- Quote from: ragnar on October 25, 2011, 07:16:38 am ---You know how retired people buy cars from their youth right now and that has driven prices of 60s era cars up. Is this going to happen to arcade cabinets in 20 years? --- End quote --- I've been asked that question by other collectors / non collectors... And who can really tell. So when I think of a dedicated ghosts 'n goblins, I think of the purple taito version. |
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