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[Grauwulf]

I think you should actually play it instead of using it a s a piece of furniture. I'd been happy to trade you an actual coffee table for it!  

[SirPeale]

oh 6 views, no replies!!!???

is it because my avatar is all squishy (dont know what happend there...??)

No, it's because you gave it fifteen minutes for a reply!  Give it a little time.

Do you have any pictures of your new baby?

[danny_galaga]

well, i havent seen your cab, but i like your avatar (",)

whats your connection to 1927? my sister has the album...

[SirPeale]

If I'm reading right, she's their forum admin.

[Fuzzguitar]

Hehehe, all us Aussies and our musical connections!

Back on topic. If you purchased it in Sydney may I ask where from and a rough price? Did they have any more?

Eventually I'm looking to do a cocktail as my next project.

[itismejs]

So that costs roughly $1,037.40  

[Wizard of DelRay]

I think you should actually play it instead of using it a s a piece of furniture

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[itismejs]

where are you from ?

USA!

[Wizard of DelRay]

just to be clear, i *will* be playing it not just using it as a coffee table...

I know.  We're just goofing with you.  As for the monitor, I'm not sure but it does seem a little small to be the standard (if you're going by the Pac-Man cocktail shown here http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10816.

[Minwah]

what are the other cocktails, the ones that are more lower to the ground, not so verticle? am i thinking of Galaga?

I think the more 'vertical' ones are usually the US style.  Jap / UK (Aussie too?) style cocktails are a lot wider, like this Space Invaders one: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9662

I have a UK Galaga in similar style, I think the screen is 14", possibly 13" (?)

Have fun when it arrives

[itismejs]

1 AUD = 0.692094 USD   1 USD = 1.44489 AUD

Are you sure ya used AUD???
I am miffed

[SirPeale]

http://www.arcadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

this style...

im just confused about the 2 different sizes, is this late 70's and the one i bought 80s?

You mean this?

http://www.arcadegames.com/ctgy/CocktailTableGame/prod/classic028

No one's answered because we're not exactly sure what cabinet you've got.  You may have a conversion, it's extremely possible.  Can you post a picture?

[Grauwulf]

just to be clear, i *will* be playing it not just using it as a coffee table...it will *just* be replacing the coffee table in terms of space

I wasn't being serious, I was just being my goofy, loveable self.

That is one of the real nice things about a Cocktail style cab, it can double as furniture in a pinch. I think that's why the majority of them are woodgrain laminate, so that they blend in to a non-arcade environment a little better.

[paigeoliver]

Dedicated cabinets are very rare in Australia. A Pac-Man with a 14" monitor is not dedicated, as all dedicated Pac-Man cocktails had 19" monitors.

Actually, more to the point almost ANY game with a 14" monitor is not dedicated, as almost no original manufacturers used that size in their games apart from Sega. (13" was a common size though).

[terrahwk]

I'm guessing the design is more like the one that can be found
http://home.iprimus.com.au/ozstick/prod_cocktail.html?

I hadn't even seen the design with the controllers on the 'short' ends until recently...  all the ones I've seen in Australia are the above design.

I think these were made by 'Leisure & Allied Industries'.

[paigeoliver]

We talked for a loooong time on windows messenger last night, and I located her an identical cocktail on ebay.au for less than half the price.

[Fuzzguitar]

I think in the last 2 months I've probably seen more cocktails on ebay.com.au than I had the previous six months. People are always going on about how rare they are but i'm not as convinced. From what I see Australia is full of generic LAI lowboys and cocktails and very few dedicated cabs as paige mentioned.

This is about as close as I've seen to a dedicated cocktail;

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=575&item=6117124475&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

If only I had enough money to burn and more were listed in Sydney then I'd snap one up to mame no worries. Apart from the one linked above, I wouldn't feel bad about Mame-ing it either.

Another thing stopping me is that most of the ones I've seen (ebay and in general) have the CP mounted directly on the side of the cab which makes it tough to play after a while in shooters. Funny thing is Chris from Ozstick (Melbourne) tells me almost all the cocktails from his area have a cp like in the link above.  

Maybe I should move to Melbourne lol.

[Fuzzguitar]

Whoa.....this has gotta count as dedicated!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=6116824035&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

WOW!

[paigeoliver]

By the way, the ebay one is not original, as Pac-Man never came in that style of table, and neither Namco nor Midway ever distributed Pac-Man in Australia and Leisure and Allied was unable to get the rights to sell it there either.

Like I have said, there aren't really any "original" pac-man machines in Australia.

The ebay one has a bootleg board anyway, I can tell from the screenshot, the maze is different than the Namco/Midway version (don't let that scare you off though, like I said, all Australian pacs are unoriginal bootlegs)..

[paigeoliver]

Oh, ok, got ya. Understand now.

[Fuzzguitar]

That's why I love this place!

[Fuzzguitar]

Nah, I just come to learn.

However Paigeoliver does seem to be THE man for anything arcade cabinet related, The Monitor Guru & Ken Layton could probably write the definative book on Monitors, Howard and Minwah are software legends...

You get the idea. For every aspect of this hobby there's someone who specializes in it which makes things easier for the rest of us folk.

[RayB]

Actually, more to the point almost ANY game with a 14" monitor is not dedicated, as almost no original manufacturers used that size in their games apart from Sega. (13" was a common size though).

Ummm Paige... Atari's Missile Command cocktail used a 14".

[Stingray]

Congrats on picking up a Pac cocktail. I recently bought a Space Invaders cocktail and am so happy with it I can't stand to be around myself.

-S

[RayB]

I recently bought a Space Invaders cocktail and am so happy with it I can't stand to be around myself.

Maybe you have a body odor problem.

[Stingray]

So you're saying I should stop playing SI long enough to take the occasional shower? What a ridiculous notion.  

-S