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Should I MAME a Tempest Cab?
EricDeLee:
This is my first post ... but this caught my eye:
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If anyone is in the Oklahoma City area looking for cabinets let me know.
- Kilgore
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Kilgore...
I live in Tulsa and I'm interested in ANYTHING to do with Arcade games. I've got room in my garage for stuff as well. So...
What do you have that you are parting with??? That Mrs. Pacman cab sounds very nice!
I currently have a Tempest cab and a Astro Blaster cab that were recently given to me. The Tempest has been gutted... but the control panel, marquee, and coin door are still there. The artwork is in GREAT shape. I had thought about MAMEing the cab... but still haven't been able to talk myself into doing that. I love that cab though!!!
The Astro Blaster cab has water damage on the bottom part... but all (or most) of the guts are still there. The PCBs are there.. but I don't know if they work or not. The monitor broke during pick-up. :(
Send me an email sometime!!! I haven't found many people in this area that deals with arcade games.
planetjay:
No. You should send it to me and let ME DO IT! ;D
paigeoliver:
Almost any cabinet you find will have originally either been a sought ofter classic, or a RARE game. Mainly because that is pretty much all that is out there.
I have seen very few truly generic cabinets (most of which are either those 19" ones with the fiberglass control panels, or the deluxe ones that are everywhere now). Sure you see them from time to time, but the vast majority of cabs out there were originally either a Midway cabinet, an Atari one, a Williams one, or a Stern one (with a few Q*Berts, Segas, and Dragon's Lairs thrown in for fun).
If it isn't one of those really common games, then chances are good that it is a pretty rare one. I have owned over 20 cabinets since I got into this, and the only generic one I ever had was a generic gambling game cabinet. Everything else had rolled out of the factory as a dedicated game at one point.