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| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on February 20, 2005, 06:35:09 pm --- --- Quote from: Peale on February 07, 2005, 08:54:36 am ---I can tell you this...that cab isn't dedicated. It's a Dynamo cab. Cut corner. You should be able to find replacement panels fairly easily for it. --- End quote --- Wrong. For Double Dragon II it came in a dynamo cabinet. As did many games of that time (Street Fighter II CE). It probably is the original cab for that game. because it is a dynamo cab doesn;t mean it is dedicated. Just like midway and taito, they tended to use the same cabinet for all their games. At the time dynamo was the smart and cheap way to go. They mass produced jamma cabs for the arcade industry. --- End quote --- You get off on a technicality. CTower has a POW cab that's in the same boat then. Dynamo cut-corner. |
| Flinkly:
well i'd like to back up sirpoonga...even though my opinion carries no weight. if a cab was shipped from the manufacturer or primary distributer, in that cab, then it's dedicated. when dynamos were around, they were a cheap and effective way to go. Just like dell has alot of kinds of computers, but only 5 or 10 designs that they stick them inside. it's just smart buisness. when an arcade company thought they had the "golden" game, that is when they made a specific cabinet for that game to set it apart even more from the rest. just because every arcade game doesn't have it's own cabinet design does not mean they all aren't dedicated cabinets. i hope this clears up and holes in the explanation. the other kind of cabinets are non-dedicated, where someone thought another game was better, either financially or in gameplay and couldn't afford the space or money for the complete deal, so instead they just get a kit of stickers and pcb's to swap out the origianl game with the new one. |
| SirPeale:
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with him - quite the opposite. |
| Sasquatch!:
--- Quote from: Peale on February 23, 2005, 04:14:21 pm ---Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with him - quite the opposite. --- End quote --- "Quite the opposite"? So you're not saying that you were not not agreeing with him ??? |
| SirPoonga:
When I think a game had a dedicated cabinet I think of it not as a kit but the fact that it came in it's own cabinet from the manufacture. Like pacman. We all know the pacman cabinet shape and yellow color. Now Midway used that cabinet shape for many of its games. But that shape in that color is instantly recognizable as pacman. For me a double dragon II US version is instantly recognizable as the light green and blue overall tinted sideart in a dynamo cabinet. BTW, back to this cabinet. Do you have leafs in there? I was woindering if leaf joys were standard. I'm not sure if mine were replaced at one point or not. The buttons don't match so they were replaced. |
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