Dynamo Big Boy Conversion Ideas??

[mgb]

I've got a customer with a RollerRink who has 2 Dynamo Big Boy cabs. Currently one has Simpsons Bowling and the other has Tekken 2. Needless to say, neither one is making much money.

This same customer has a Contra which is in fact making no money, but thats another story.

Anyhow I finally talked him into converting the cabs into something that may have a bit better draw.

I know there are a bunch of choices but I figured I would post here on the forum to see what others think may be a good choice.
I may convert the Tekken to a later version of Tekken.

On another note I'm still working on him to just get rid of his Magic Sword which is a Tempest cabinet conversion, so that I can take it and restore it as a Tempest.

[mytymaus007]

stick with the classics more then likey you have the parents putting money in the machines at the roller rink these days. I dont know many kids wh are into Arcade games if so driving and shooting games. But im sure there are alot of parents going to the rink wanting to play a game but when they see tekken i dont think there into it that much over defender and asteroids. I would get a multicade with 4 way and a trackball and a Williams Multi youll be golden.I go to chucky cheese with the kids Damm wish they had a multi i would be dropping quarters like crazy. So Basically sell those big boys or keep them of course and add 2 mre machine

[paigeoliver]

Fighting games don't earn anything unless they are the very latest. The newest Tekken arcade game is something like 4 years old, it would never earn its keep.

Kids don't really play the arcade games at the skating rink anymore. Parents usually don't hang out and watch, they drop the kids off and pick them up. I went skating with a few friends some years back in 2003 or 2004 and even then the kids had stopped playing the games. They had 4 machines (the current Tekken at the time, Cruisin' world, an Elvira pin and one more I can't recall). It was a friday night, the place was packed with teens and tweens, we were the only adults there. I kept an eye on the machines the whole time we were there and no one played any of them, not even once.

The most profitable thing he could do is to sell all of them and spend his proceeds on a plush crane, a candy crane and a sticker machine.

It isn't worth trying to deconvert a vector game. It costs much more than an unconverted one costs.  There also aren't enough monitors to go around. The sad truth is every vector monitor you find for sale by itself leaves a torched cabinet behind in the seller's backyard (normally a Space Duel).  The leftover stock of hoarded monitors in op warehouses and collector basements ran out something like 15 years ago. My buddy and I passed on a converted Tempest with intact sideart for $25 in a recent raid for these very same reasons.