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Getting an old Space Duel Cab - advice needed.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: 1hookedspacecadet on April 14, 2004, 11:00:09 pm ---Dang! What's up with the TWO Space Duels to the right???? Good to hear you are scooping up the free one. Good luck and ask him about the other two when you pick it up would you? I am curious (but just tire kicking).
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I don't see two space duels - I see Ms. Pac on the left, something in the left foreground, StarWars or ESB on the Right rear, another Space Duel, and then a Gravitar, or Black Widow, (not up on early atari, probably Gravitar, though)
RetroJames:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 15, 2004, 07:34:38 am ---
--- Quote from: 1hookedspacecadet on April 14, 2004, 11:00:09 pm ---Dang! What's up with the TWO Space Duels to the right???? Good to hear you are scooping up the free one. Good luck and ask him about the other two when you pick it up would you? I am curious (but just tire kicking).
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I don't see two space duels - I see Ms. Pac on the left, something in the left foreground, StarWars or ESB on the Right rear, another Space Duel, and then a Gravitar, or Black Widow, (not up on early atari, probably Gravitar, though)
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You are correct, my mistake. So what's up with the Space Duel!? ::)
Santoro:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 13, 2004, 04:17:25 pm --- Resto shops toss these cabs in the dumpster in mint condition if they don't have the insides.
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This blows my mind. Wouldn't any of us here pay $50 for a mint cabinet with nice side-art? Why don't they sell these things? Or advertise on the internet/here?
Santoro:
OK, so I picked up the cabinet. I was drooling, this guy had an entire warehouse floor of classic games, working and non. He really only seemed interested in selling retail though.
Looking carefully at the paint, swirl marks made me think that someone sanded the side-art well before painting. I used some goof-off to remove a little of the blue and it does indeed look like all of the nice color has been sanded off. (There is enough left to be used as a template if I wanted to re-paint the art, but given the complexity of the pattern, I will not be doing that.)
So, Plan B is this: I want to make it look like a Centipede cab and Mame it. I plan to sand down the sides and put white laminate on it with side art from ebay. It even looks like I might be able to make one of the refurbed 25" K7400s I just bought fit in.
What do you all think?
dave
paigeoliver:
I THINK it is the wrong cabinet to be a Centipede, but hey, it is your money.
A 25" monitor will PROBABLY fit, although it might poke out the back. Don't go the Centipede route unless you plan on having a trackball and a vertical monitor though.