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yotsuya:

That cab is in great shape. Doesn't look like anything needs to be done to it.

ppv:

Nice! Wish I could have more than one cab in the house. That Gauntlet is sweet!

Maximus:

Vigo I can definitely do that at some point but for now the cab is over at the new house and we wont be moving in for another 6 weeks or so.

Yep the cab is in very very good shape, I haven't had time to give it a thorough testing but the front two sticks seem to work very well and they are the ones that get the most abuse.

I do plan to give it a light refurb at some point, but it's certainly good enough that it can take it's place in the arcade/sports bar/movie room thingy for a while without offending.

Maximus:

Also Vigo when you say the full body art, I'm not sure I know what that is.

Vigo:

Sweet, no hurry about the measurement. I had plans in like 2006 to build a scratch gauntlet, but that is deep in the backest of the back burners. It is just one of those things that has been bugging me for 7 years now.  :lol

As far as art goes, you got one of the nicer art cabs, IMO, in that it has the head to toe side art. The bottom of the art begins with the warriors loin cloth, and there are five ghosts going up to the top. As PL1 was saying (but nobody reads his posts), the stuff available online is pretty much only the cropped down side art. You can see that cropped art on PL1's post. I think at some point, Atari decided to cut costs, or didn't want to muck with perfectly lining up a full decals after Gauntlet hit it big, so went with a smaller decal on the sides.

Knowing the cabinet guru you are, I figured at some point you might be tackling replacing the side art since the only obvious blemish is a tear on the top of the right side. If you by chance go through the effort of vectoring up the full size Gauntlet art, you would be a hero to many Gauntlet enthusiasts. 90% of the art is already there, and the cropped away stuff can mostly be pulled from the manual cover. It is just that, AFAIK, nobody has but in the effort to tackle the full side art yet.   8)

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