What/Who is NACS Arcade?

[The_Tyler_Black]

I have just recently rund into 3 cabs from all different places that all look the same! 1 was a frogger. 1 was river patrol, and the other a lady bug. I bought 2 of them, the thing is that these are not "original cabs" so i guess they are conversions evern though theyve always been what is in them.
I googled for my answer and came up with nothing! Have one of yall heard of this company? below are pics to explain what i mean!

[GAJoe]

This is just a guess, but based on the logos I'd say they were probably some sort of local distributor that branded games with their own mark.  Off the top of my head I'd guess their acronym stands for National Amusement Company Services.  Since their logo looks like a very simple stencil sort of slapped on in the corner of those marquees, I'm thinking it wasn't originally there.  As for the cabinets, my guess would be they were scratch built on the same pattern to house homeless gameboards.  Note the coindoors, since one is narrower and longer than the other, someone would have to do a lot of bondoing and wood working to retrofit one to the other if they started as the exact same cabinet design with the same size space for the coin door.  The generic CPs, no side art, etc. make me think they probably made the cabinets themselves to fit whatever hardware they had laying around.  Thus one gets an over/under coin door and the other gets the rectangle door variety.

[SavannahLion]

Are those marquees reprints of some kind? That's the third or fourth Lady Bug marquee design I've seen. There's the KLOV one, there's this one here and I had one (that some moron tried to glue another marquee on top) that was really nothing more than red text on a blue back ground. I also recall someone else had a different design on the forums too.

[GAJoe]

Are those marquees reprints of some kind? That's the third or fourth Lady Bug marquee design I've seen. There's the KLOV one, there's this one here and I had one (that some moron tried to glue another marquee on top) that was really nothing more than red text on a blue back ground. I also recall someone else had a different design on the forums too.

Yeah, there are quite a few.  I think it's because that was one of those Universal conversion kit games like Mr. Do, so some got just the boards and made their own marquees.  That version of the Lady Bug marquee looks kind of psychedelic with the half naked fairy.  I'm pretty sure this is the original version, though, with the Universal logo on it:



The River Patrol one is interesting because I can't find an example of its marquee anywhere except for one from a bootleg version.  That looks pretty professional, who knows it might be one of the few authentic marquees for that game.


Are these the same cabinets, at least the River Patrol?  http://pensacola.craigslist.org/tag/666408394.html
 

[The_Tyler_Black]

The River Patrol one is interesting because I can't find an example of its marquee anywhere except for one from a bootleg version.  That looks pretty professional, who knows it might be one of the few authentic marquees for that game.


Are these the same cabinets, at least the River Patrol?  http://pensacola.craigslist.org/tag/666408394.html

Yes those are 2 of the ones im talking about, the lady bug i got from a completely different place/area.

But as far as the marquees in these i dont think they are "original" i think this NACS company prints there own style of the marquees.

Im trying to find out more about this company, but no luck at all!

[Ummon]

But as far as the marquees in these i dont think they are "original" i think this NACS company prints there own style of the marquees.

Yep, they totally look unofficial.