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Title: Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: paigeoliver on August 03, 2003, 11:40:47 pm

Ok. My Amazing Maze project has a build date inside of November 1975. Is anyone else using a cabinet older than that?

Heck, is anyone else even using a Pre-80 cabinet at all.

I know mine isn't the oldest possible cabinet to use, since a lot of the 60s electromechanical games came in Mame-able cabinets (Chicago Coin Motorcycle, etc).

Title: Re:Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: Apollo on August 04, 2003, 12:11:11 am

I have an antique china cabinet conversion dating from the early 18th century which lends a rather elegant air to any game of PacMan.

Title: Re:Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: NiN^_^NiN on August 04, 2003, 02:59:15 am

My speed race is 1974  ;D

altho it doesn't fully work yet

Title: Re:Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: HeadRusch on August 05, 2003, 12:34:00 pm

Hmmm..my abandoned Moon Alien II coctail cabinet project was dated 1978, but KLOV lists the game as 1980...I wonder if it started life as another coctail and was converted to a moon Alien II (unlikely).

Its abandoned cuz the cabinet itself is just shot....too many years adn too much humidity have weakened the plywood structure (and my ripping off the outer layer of wood paneling didn't help).  Time to rebuild out of MDF ;)

Title: Re:Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: NiN^_^NiN on August 06, 2003, 02:11:43 am

Why do people throw away the cabs that have water damage?

U can atleast use the wood for a stencile for a new cabinet.

then you can throw it out if you like :)

Title: Re:Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: Sasquatch! on August 08, 2003, 10:31:36 pm

Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on August 06, 2003, 02:11:43 am

Why do people throw away the cabs that have water damage?

U can atleast use the wood for a stencile for a new cabinet.

then you can throw it out if you like :)

Because the huge majority of people aren't nutballs like us that like to spend time building/refurbing cabinets?  ;)

Title: Re:Who has the oldest Mame cabinet.
Post by: jakejake28 on August 08, 2003, 10:48:00 pm

'77... a speed race twin.