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Crowquill:


--- Quote from: RayB on February 04, 2008, 06:32:25 pm ---No. Only Centipede, Dig Dug and Kangaroo shared that particular design, and even then there's small variances, like the type of coin door.


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Don't forget Arabian. Food Fight is very similar but has weird bumps in the outline where the pie artwork was. IIRC Centipede was the only one with the coin-door style that yours has. Others have an "over/under" coin door.


TelcoLou:

Cool! I feel smarter :) (thought I also feel a bit guilty for 'MAMEing' and old Centipede cab  :-[  )

pcb:

It's most definitely a Centipede.  They are the only Atari cab of that style that had a pinball coin door, the others had the over/under coin door pictured above.

Best,

 - Mike -

MaximRecoil:

I believe that Centipede was also the only one that was "undercut" beneath the control panel; or more accurately, "overcut" above the CP (the Centipede is "fatter" on the sides above the CP). For example:



Also, I think the other Atari cabinets of that general shape, such as Dig Dug, had a notch cut from the lower rear corners, while Centipede didn't.



Crowquill:


--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on February 05, 2008, 08:49:31 am ---I believe that Centipede was also the only one that was "undercut" beneath the control panel; or more accurately, "overcut" above the CP (the Centipede is "fatter" on the sides above the CP). For example:

Also, I think the other Atari cabinets of that general shape, such as Dig Dug, had a notch cut from the lower rear corners, while Centipede didn't.

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Very good observations. I'll have to make a note of those for the cabinet ID webpage I'm (very slowly) working on. I talked about it on this thread. I even mentioned in that thread that it'd be nice to know the differences between the Centipede and Dig Dug-style cabs.




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