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Title: cocktail - deco cassette system
Post by: bluemini17 on November 07, 2012, 09:28:16 am
Afternoon all,

I have just been lurking around ebay at lunch time and came across this (pic from add so poor quality).......

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The seller mentioned it is an old Deco Cassette System but the cassette loader has been removed.

If I decide to buy this should I restore the cab ( im not 100% as to what game the instruction card is, I will find out more once I hear back from the seller)

or......  should i mame it. the screen works and so do the controls.

Any thoughts on what the instruction cards refer to, I have a feeling its burger time?

all the best, David
Title: Re: cocktail - deco cassette system
Post by: crashwg on November 07, 2012, 01:05:50 pm
My vote is for mame it.
Title: Re: cocktail - deco cassette system
Post by: paigeoliver on November 07, 2012, 02:39:42 pm
There is an expansion card kit for the Deco system that replaces the tape loader and turns it into a multigame.
Title: Re: cocktail - deco cassette system
Post by: jasonbar on November 08, 2012, 01:15:20 am
I used to have one of those. The only really good game out of the 8 or so that I had was Burgertime. I sold it in the late 90s on rgvam. The night before a fellow came down from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, during my last play time with the game, it broke. I gave the guy a discount.

Long story short: tape media was unreliable 15 years ago, how much more so today? I fear that the machine would be a headache.

But, if there is a kit for it that doesn't use tapes, that might be swell!

-Jason
Title: Re: cocktail - deco cassette system
Post by: matsadona on November 08, 2012, 04:03:35 am
Since it is a vertical monitor I would put a 60-in-1 card in it. It would require some rewiring, but way less efforts than going the MAME track.