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Coin door Preference?
« on: September 15, 2014, 04:45:39 pm »
Hey Everyone,

Working on another build and was just curious to hear what some of your thoughts out there were on coin door styles. I am doing another two player upright cab that's going to be an 80's retro style theme. Thank you for your feedback!

The two coin door options are:

Option 1 :     Option 2 :

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Re: Coin door Preference?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2014, 04:49:46 pm »
Hey Everyone,

Working on another build and was just curious to hear what some of your thoughts out there were on coin door styles. I am doing another two player upright cab that's going to be an 80's retro style theme. Thank you for your feedback!

The two coin door options are:

Option 1 :     Option 2 :


The one on the left reminds me more of pinball.

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Re: Coin door Preference?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2014, 05:00:15 pm »
Thanks for the reply :) Option 1 is just a standard full size coin door. I think I would've liked to gone with option 2, but just realized after looking at my sketchup design that option 2 won't work with the sub inside that space as it's a relatively slimmer woody-esque style build. Any who,  others feel free to chime in as this may or may not be useful for others considering there builds.

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Re: Coin door Preference?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2014, 05:06:11 pm »
Option 1 is very similar to the cabs found on Pac-Man, Centipede, Asteroids, Missile Command, Tempest, etc (think early 80s). The over under (Option 2) came in to vogue in the mid 80s and stayed with JAMMA. You'd be fine with either. If you go with a single door, stick with the two-slot one. The smaller single slot ones are a bit too small for a full-size cabinet in my honest opinion.
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Re: Coin door Preference?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2014, 05:09:15 pm »
Another build!? We did not see final pictures of your Goonies cab yet  ??? ??? ???

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Re: Coin door Preference?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2014, 05:21:06 pm »
Another build!? We did not see final pictures of your Goonies cab yet  ??? ??? ???

I will try to get them up soon. The build is complete and at my buddies house, but haven't been able to take any final photos unfortunately. My apologies for the delay.

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Re: Coin door Preference?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2014, 06:34:11 pm »
I like the over unders like the one to the right but if you're really anal on early 80s details, I'd go with the left one.