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Cab styles you don't see people make very often. - Poll added.
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paigeoliver:
Ooh, I am definitely liking the power droid cabinet. It reminds me of a period of my life where I had a 19" monitor sitting on top of a 13" japanese cocktail that I had it wired up to.

I picked a bunch of pre 79 cabinets on purpose. When the industry really exploded in 79 they really started standardizing cabinet design. Game cabinet design was all over the place before that.
Naru:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 15, 2007, 04:59:09 am ---I call this style the microfilm reader. Terribly complex in both shape and amount of different materials used. At minimum I see wood, plastic, veneer, what looks like stainless steel and diamond plate.

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Wow!
This thing looks neat
in an old sci-fi kinda way.
Too bad I don't have the skill to
reproduce a cab like this one.
Crowquill:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 15, 2007, 08:28:03 pm ---I picked a bunch of pre 79 cabinets on purpose. When the industry really exploded in 79 they really started standardizing cabinet design. Game cabinet design was all over the place before that.

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Which of course can be a mixed blessing. The better ones came up with stylish designs that would still accomodate the hardware, others just made simple boxes or tried to adapt electromechanical game or vending machine designs. I think that's why in some ways I'm more impressed with the post '80 games that defied the conventions that were created. Atari was one of the last ones who seemed to approach each cabinet differently for each game. This is what led them to creating the Firefox, Xybots, and STUN Runner cabs.
shorthair:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 15, 2007, 04:47:44 pm ---
It's hiliarious that they made an actual "Jump The Shark" cab... how ironic would it have been if the whole industry went downhill immediately after that cab was released?

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...I think it did....wasn't that in the early 80s?

Shark cab: looks more like a urinal.
am_monkee:
I say the school desk b/c when I was in gradeschool, all I did was sit at that small desk with the attached chair and wish it was 3pm so I could go to the arcades.  ;D

Thanks for sharing the collection, paige.
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