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Title: original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: civic83 on October 20, 2003, 02:05:37 pm: Does anybody in southwestern ontario know of any bubble bobble cabinets (working or not) that are for sale, this is my favorite game and am looking to add it to my collection.

Thanks
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: Edgedamage on October 20, 2003, 02:20:32 pm: Might be kinda hard I have never seen a original cab. All the ones I have seen were converted cabinets.
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: Apollo on October 20, 2003, 10:42:19 pm: I don't think there is any such thing as an "original" Bubble Bobble cab but I'm sure PaigeOliver will be along to correct me shortly, lol.
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: paigeoliver on October 21, 2003, 12:15:33 am: You are correct, it is a conversion-only game.

My cabinet of choice for it would be one of the Taito cabinets that have the stripes on the side and say "Taito", since it is a Taito game.
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: SirPoonga on October 21, 2003, 01:47:46 am: Like this one.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=D&game_id=7619
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: paigeoliver on October 21, 2003, 06:02:58 am: Quote from: SirPoonga on October 21, 2003, 01:47:46 am
Like this one.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=D&game_id=7619

No, like this one here.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=E&game_id=7700

The only difference being that Bubble Bobble would not have likely ended up in the dedicated Double Dragon style cabinet, as Double Dragon came out after Bubble Bobble did.

Of course I always think that ALL conversion-only Taito games should be in those cabinets if at all possible.
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: SirPoonga on October 21, 2003, 04:16:33 pm: That's a dedicated ddragon cabinet? Looks generic to me :)

Anyway, yeah, that taito cabinet is a nice cabinet.
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: civic83 on October 21, 2003, 06:32:03 pm: Thanks for the info, i had no idea that this game was a conversion only. I guess I'll pick up a board set if I ever run across one
Title: Re:original bubble bobble cabinet
Post by: paigeoliver on October 22, 2003, 12:37:25 am: Yes, that is the dedicated Double Dragon cabinet. Most of Taito's dedicated games still came in fairly generic looking cabinets. The only big exception I can think of is Zoo Keeper, which came in the standard early Taito cabinet, but with either 2 color, or full color sideart.

You can still identify the converted Taito cabinets by the color scheme though. They used a unique one for each game, although every once in a while you will find an original dedicated one that is the "wrong" color.