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CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: jimmy_bored on August 28, 2006, 12:43:16 pm ---While I hear what your saying about be mocked, I just wish the mockers would have been around when the arcade operators converted it to Twin Tigers and then Silk Worm...  :dizzy: 
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Oh, they (we?) are ... they (we?) just recognize that for ops, it was a matter of feeding the family rather than collection and preservation. Hard to fault them there.


--- Quote from: jimmy_bored on August 28, 2006, 12:43:16 pm ---From a purist view you are total right, but at the end of the day and maybe at the most only .03434343433 percent of the worlds population would even say, "That's a Tron cabinet.  What moron would put Galaga in that cabinet".  Out of all the cabs I have done this is the only one I am having problems with.  I just don't want to spend the money to restore it and I really don't like the game (or the ones it was converted to).  That's why I am at this dilemma. 
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Actually I think from *any* point of view, I'm right ... you *will* be mocked (I'm not condoning the mocking, although I would likely snicker at a Galaga in a Tron cab), although the mocking will be confined to knowledgable folks. It is your cabinet and you can do what you want with it (after all, there are fewer pieces of Tron hardware/artwork than Tron cabinets).

I would be surprised, though, if you couldn't trade an empty Tron for an empty Galaga (or MsPac) ... more aesthetically pleasing, better game and less mocking involved (plus the Galaga artwork is cheap right now).

You could always go Gorf, as the cabinet was close, but I'm not a big Gorf fan. Satan's Hollow might work, but the handles are harder to find than Tron.

In your spot, I might make a vertical classics cabinet (either multi or MAME) with a topfire stick and a spinner.

EDIT: Man, 3 responses while I wrote this ...

Cheers.



Hoopz:

I'll make you an offer.  You find someone to swap cabinets with who won't bastardize that poor cabinet anymore and will restore it to Tron.  If you do that, I'll send that person a Tron marqee for free.  May help you find someone to trade with.   Deal?

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: HooPZ on August 28, 2006, 01:15:26 pm ---I'll make you an offer.  You find someone to swap cabinets with who won't bastardize that poor cabinet anymore and will restore it to Tron.  If you do that, I'll send that person a Tron marqee for free.
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* CheffoJeffo wishes he was near jimmy_bored and had a spare Galaga/MsPac cabinet ...

Hoopz:


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on August 28, 2006, 01:20:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: HooPZ on August 28, 2006, 01:15:26 pm ---I'll make you an offer.  You find someone to swap cabinets with who won't bastardize that poor cabinet anymore and will restore it to Tron.  If you do that, I'll send that person a Tron marqee for free.
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* CheffoJeffo wishes he was near jimmy_bored and had a spare Galaga/MsPac cabinet ...
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* HooPZ will remember to contact CheffoJeffo if he ever wants to unload his Tron marquee and CP that doesnt have the joy or spinner in it...
 ;D

RayB:

I don't like Tron either.

Hey, not only has his cab been converted, it's had the control panel modified. (That's not the original control panel).

I'd.. umm, just throw in a JAMMA board (assuming it's JAMMA now?)


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