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Got a Dragon's Lair cabinet for $25. What should I do with it??
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SaiNRuB:
Look how much this Dragon's Lair cabinet fetched on EBAY.
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Id sell it in a heartbeat if I could get that kinda bank for it.
Xiaou2:

 If you do a little research,  then grab the needed parts off ebay... eventually you can rebuild the cab to Dragons Lair.
(use laser disc components... not pc or dvd stuff)

 The reason why the cab 'only'  gets like 400$+  is because if they are fixed and sold - they go for well over 1500$   I think more like 2000$  but im sure that also depends on condition.

 
dag2000:
I'm a little confused.  Is it a Drongons Lair converted to Gladiator or Vice-versa?  Can you locate the loose wires and post pics?  Maybe someone here could guide you to reconnecting them.  When you say it doesn't work could you be more specific?  When you plug it it nothing happens or what?
krick:
Looking at the cabinet shape, I'd say that it was a Dragon's Lair converted to Gladiator.
pgifford:

--- Quote from: dag2000 on June 24, 2004, 10:21:06 pm ---I'm a little confused.  Is it a Drongons Lair converted to Gladiator or Vice-versa?  Can you locate the loose wires and post pics?  Maybe someone here could guide you to reconnecting them.  When you say it doesn't work could you be more specific?  When you plug it it nothing happens or what?

--- End quote ---

It's actually a Dragon's Lair converted to a Thayer's Quest converted to Gladiator.  The marquee still has some TQ overlay on it and inside the cab, above the coin door, is a fluorescent light fixture that was used (I assume) to illuminate the TQ keyboard.

I plugged the cabinet in.  Nothing.  So far so good...I didn't want it to do anything at that point.  The only switch I saw was a white rod (a couple of inches long, sort of tapered at the end) that is on a spring and moves in and out.  If I push it in it pops right out.   If you go to this page:

http://www.digitalironworks.com/game/

you can see it from a distance in picture 8.  I'm on AF Reserve duty right now so I'm not home to take more pictures, sorry.

When I held in the switch the monitor came to life a little.  Ok, I don't know the right words for what I'm trying to describe so bear with me :)  At the end of the monitor inside the cabinet, i.e. not the part you view but the other end, there was a buzzing and inside the glass I could see blue light.  Sort of like the lights you find at Spencer's - the ones where you can see the electricity moving around inside (ok, not electricity but ionized air? ).   After a few seconds it stopped.

I know that's a terrible job of describing things but I hope it gives you more information.

Thanks,

Paul
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