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So who's the resident midway cocktail expert around here?
shardian:
After thinking about it, I believe Galaxian also originally came in the pacman cabinet.
Stobe:
You're right about the CP "wings". (For lack of better word). They are also router grooved and glued into the "faces" of the cabinet. But my "wings" look very short. In fact, both CP bottoms were cut (read mangled) to allow joysticks and buttons to fit for depth.
I'm almost tempted to cut a new "hole" a little wider and deeper for the CP, and just make a wooden box rather than metal-top CP. Is there any reason this shouldn't be an option? (i.e. enthusiasts screaming about cutting up a classic) (not that it hasn't been pretty well cut up already)
-Stobe
(thanks for all the info so far. Can you tell I'm excited about jumping into this next project)
Crowquill:
Could be a Space Invaders Deluxe/Space Invaders II. It has the rounded edges and a weird, shallow control panel. Control-wise, I think it uses the same swiveling lever as Galaxian. The rounded corners are constructed differently on SI than on Pac-Man and Galaxian. It also has a very different colored laminate than the other cocktails. Below are a couple pics. The first is from KLOV, the rest are pics I took through the window of a local operator's showroom. The SI is sitting right next to a Pac-Man cocktail. I was thinking about building a cocktail and took these as reference photos as to the differences between them. AFAIK, SI was the only Midway cocktail where the back panel is built like this.
A Rally-X should be pretty easy to spot since it had a horizontally-mounted monitor--a rarity among all of the Midway cocktails.
Does yours have the 1-slot coin door?
Crowquill:
Just stumbled onto one other possibility while looking for pics of another cabinet:
Not surprisingly, Bally Sente's cocktails are very similar to Bally Midway's. I don't know of any Midway's cocktails with the CP on the long side. Yours might've just been a weird conversion thing.
RayB:
I refuse to comment without photos!
;D