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Why the Ms.Pac/Galaga cocktail is so big?
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OSCAR:
I found out today when I installed the coin door.  The Class of '81 cocktail uses the Entropy Triple Door coindoor and a 19" monitor, and the coin box sticks out so far that it clears the monitor neckboard buy about 1/2" when you swing the monitor panel out.  If the cabinet was 1" narrower, the neckboard would definitely interfere with the coin box.  It's very close, I thought I was going to have to get creative with my jigsaw on the rear of my new coin door!




Frostillicus:
Maybe it's to accomodate those coin doors with bill acceptors with more necessary storage space.
OSCAR:

--- Quote from: Frostillicus on June 15, 2003, 04:47:07 pm ---Maybe it's to accomodate those coin doors with bill acceptors with more necessary storage space.

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I'm sure that is why.  The Triple Entropy door that is used in these cocktails accepts a bill validator.  But even without the bill validator, the monitor still barely clears the coin box.  The original Midway cocktails used a wooden enclosure to house the coin box and was much narrower, so that's how those cocktails could be so much smaller.

I posted the info because I've seen people speculate that these cocktails used a 25" monitor and that's why they were larger.  I can tell you that there is no way a 25" monitor would fit in here!  The hinged monitor panel is only about 1/8" wider than the frame of a 19" monitor, so you wouldn't even be able to open the cocktail if it had a 25" monitor in it.


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