arcade cabinet handlebar inserts... an original thing or modern mod?

[vertexguy]

Did many original arcade cabinets actually have plastic "handle bar" inserts on the backs to help with moving them, or is this a more modern modification?

Here's an example:


Note the top area with the "handle bar" inserts.

[mahuti]

Bally/midway  used those way back. My Satan's Hollow machine has them too.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah midway almost always had some kind of hand hold and since they were the largest cabinet manufacturer at the time they are quite common. 

[vertexguy]

Thanks for the info guys.  I was really just curious in part because they seem really hard to find.  Unless of course they have a different name than "handle bars" which would explain me not finding them.    I did end up getting a set off eBay for my build.

[Mike A]

I am not sure where you get handle bars from.

They are cabinet handles.

https://twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=219_226

[Mike A]

Handle bars are those things you use to steer bicycles and motorcycles.

[vertexguy]

Handle bars are those things you use to steer bicycles and motorcycles.

Lol.... I dont disagree but that's what the listing called them.  Here's the same guy selling them thru Walmart with the same weird name

https://www.walmart.com/ip/New-Black-Plastic-Arcade-Game-Cabinet-Handle-Bar-insert/877470852?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=11455&&adid=22222222228000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=42423897272&wl4=aud-393207457166:pla-51320962143&wl5=9028708&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117019192&wl11=online&wl12=877470852&veh=sem&gclid=CjwKCAiA_Kz-BRAJEiwAhJNY79JqQYS03q32sRyjgiB6iXBbxVLkDN4sKlNbofwAOJRSePGIY-wwIxoC6mkQAvD_BwE

[Howard_Casto]

Handle bars are those things you use to steer bicycles and motorcycles.

Lol.... I dont disagree but that's what the listing called them.  Here's the same guy selling them thru Walmart with the same weird name

Well there's your problem ^^