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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: smalltownguy on March 07, 2010, 12:12:47 pm
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I just picked up a free cabinet this weekend. It's currently outfitted for Double Play Baseball Home Run Derby, but it's not the original game for this cabinet. I can tell because:
- The cabinet front has been repainted
- The control panel overlay under the baseball controls does not match
- There's unused wiring inside the cab
- There's an extra PCB holder that is currently vacant
- The current game is a Cinemetronics game, and the cabinet is an Atari cabinet.
Here's a shot of the profile. Can someone tell me what the original game used to be?
Here's the side profile:
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f66/smalltownguy2/IMG_7479.jpg)
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Food Fight
(http://www.pinballrebel.com/arcade/atari/foodfight/foodfight_b.jpg)
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No thanks? :dunno
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No thanks? :dunno
Many thanks, I appreciate it :)
Now, to take a peek at those sides -- laminate? Or stickers?
Perhaps I'll just leave the lovely 80's woodgrain.....
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No prob. I saw you online and was like, "Did he forget his thread?"
I answered the question less than four minutes after you asked it, but after a day of no response, I had to call you out. ;D
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No prob. I saw you online and was like, "Did he forget his thread?"
I answered the question less than four minutes after you asked it, but after a day of no response, I had to call you out. ;D
Jeez, man! I just looked at the timestamps. That's obscene :laugh2:
I spent the better part of the weekend trying to figure out what to do with all of the cabs I've been accumulating recently. I'm now the proud owner of a non working DD cab (flaky PCB), and a seriously 'Funk' - tified Food Fight / Double Play baseball conversion. I'm really leaning towards restoration on the DD cab now, and gutting the Food fight cab. At the very least, I can use the guts of the Double Play setup to build a JAMMA test rig.
I helped a buddy diagnose his 25" monitor tube yesterday, by swapping the chassis from my 19" WG K7xxx to his tube. Nothing blew up, so that's promising. He can now order a rebuild kit and get his Pit Fighter cab monitor running again. Have you ever seen one of those cabs? The whole control panel just slides out with this huge drawer cubby behind it, holding the game CPU, power supply, everything.
It's pretty neat.
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You mean one of these? Cool stuff, terrible game.
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=788&image=2 (http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=788&image=2)
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Yeah, that's it! I mean, how EASY is it to service the machine when it's set up like that? Piece of cake.
Granted, the latch buckles still need to be unclipped before the drawer will slide out, but it's so heavy that they don't really need to be clipped closed in most cases. I told him I was pretty jealous of that cab.
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Here's another cab with that type of setup
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=3153&image=1 (http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=3153&image=1)
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Just for kicks I decided to peel back a bit of the laminate to see what I could find.
Lookee what I see...........
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f66/smalltownguy2/IMG_1709.jpg)
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If you're careful, you might be able to restore the original art with minimal touch up. Congrats on the find! Hopefully they only covered it up since they weren't going to use the original game anymore rather than some horrible damage yet to be found. :dizzy:
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I clicked this thinking "Thats a food fight, and I thought Ginsu told him that" is this de ja vu, heh
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I clicked this thinking "Thats a food fight, and I thought Ginsu told him that" is this de ja vu, heh
Yeah, I know -- but after getting a peek at what could possibly be salvageable side art, now I'm considering pulling off all the laminate to see what I can find >:D