cocktail - deco cassette system

[bluemini17]

Afternoon all,

I have just been lurking around ebay at lunch time and came across this (pic from add so poor quality).......



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The seller mentioned it is an old Deco Cassette System but the cassette loader has been removed.

If I decide to buy this should I restore the cab ( im not 100% as to what game the instruction card is, I will find out more once I hear back from the seller)

or......  should i mame it. the screen works and so do the controls.

Any thoughts on what the instruction cards refer to, I have a feeling its burger time?

all the best, David

[crashwg]

My vote is for mame it.

[paigeoliver]

There is an expansion card kit for the Deco system that replaces the tape loader and turns it into a multigame.

[jasonbar]

I used to have one of those. The only really good game out of the 8 or so that I had was Burgertime. I sold it in the late 90s on rgvam. The night before a fellow came down from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, during my last play time with the game, it broke. I gave the guy a discount.

Long story short: tape media was unreliable 15 years ago, how much more so today? I fear that the machine would be a headache.

But, if there is a kit for it that doesn't use tapes, that might be swell!

-Jason

[matsadona]

Since it is a vertical monitor I would put a 60-in-1 card in it. It would require some rewiring, but way less efforts than going the MAME track.