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Do you think this could turn in a mame cabinet ?

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danny_galaga:

yeah, mame that baby and get another one 'just in case' (",) . its got lots of colour and shiny bits. you wont have to do much i think. my own view is to avoid a frankenpanel though as it would detract from its look...

TOK:


--- Quote from: freak on September 10, 2005, 06:14:25 pm ---What do you mean TOK ?

Building a new control panel for this machine (wass planning on doing this)

or pulling this control panel and make a new cabinet ?

I would like to try if i could make this one into a mame cabinet, i can go wrong somewhere cause i know where i can get another one lol :)

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What I mean is that I wouldn't alter the original panel on that machine, since it appears to be intact. I'd remove it and use it as a template to build one with sticks/buttons and trackball.

Minwah:

I've seen plenty of Crystal Maze games in the UK, but not being a big gambler/fruity fan I've never played it, FWIW.

ray_slup:

it looks like it would make a good jukebox

Level42:


--- Quote from: quarterback on September 10, 2005, 12:48:19 pm ---WTF is a fruit machine and why does JCL keep saying it?


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I don't know for the UK, but in Holland (and because more then half of Belgium also speaks Dutch (well kinda') I guess we'd also call it a Fruitmachine (actualy Fruit Automaat). The name clearly comes from the cymbols on the rolls that are (were) always cherry's, pears, pineapple's, banana's, grapes, grapefruites etc.

There was a very long time that in The Netherlands, these machines were actualy not allowed to pay out. You just played for the points. Of course, every place that had one or more of these machines payed out "under the table" because else no-one would play those things. Luckely government understood they could never control it and allowed them to pay out directly in the end, but there are still very strict rules about them here.

I personlay don't like them, these and the photoplays killed the videogames & pinballs in small places like bars, cafetaria's etc where only 1 or 2 machine's are.

Anyway, even though sometimes the rolls have been replaced with CRT's, every machine that pays out is usualy called a "fruitmachine" here...

So what do you call these machines in the US ? Slotmachines ?

By the way, welcome freak, nice to see someone in the "neighborhood" :)
O and yes I would Mame it and pick up a second one for keeps....

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