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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: dextercf on July 23, 2013, 12:13:32 pm

Title: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: dextercf on July 23, 2013, 12:13:32 pm

Could you please help identify the gameboard that sat in a Turpin cab i just got home?

I suspect the dig dug connector to just be a mislabeled connector to adapt the pcb to the cabinet. Might be a turpin pcb. Or something completely different.

Title: Re: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: lilshawn on July 23, 2013, 12:53:22 pm

it's not an original dig dug that's for sure, perhaps a dig dug bootleg?

are the roms labeled DD1 (or DDI) i cant really tell. also, what does that yellow label in the middle say? looks like the manufacturer.

Title: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: dextercf on July 23, 2013, 02:38:53 pm

I got these pics taken last night.
The yellow sticker is probably from a norwegian vendor.

Title: Re: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: ed12 on July 23, 2013, 03:01:42 pm

dig dug is the name of it

refer to the proms ddi then it's # ie 1-12 or what ever
it is a stackale board set
the harness u are talking about is much like the 1's  used on galga or pacman

ed

Title: Re: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: lilshawn on July 23, 2013, 07:16:24 pm

yeah, i'm thinking its a dig dug bootleg. there was 2 versions of the dig dug board (one made by atari, and the other made by NAMCO.), neither look like this.

ATARI:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3614/3604631944_193bb0aa52_b.jpg)

NAMCO:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3593994993_c40c3af507_b.jpg)

EDIT: brainfart NAMCO not TAITO. oops.

Title: Re: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: ed12 on July 23, 2013, 08:58:23 pm

ya that first 1 look's like old school atari or early midway >pacman<

ed

Title: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: dextercf on July 25, 2013, 05:21:01 pm

So, this board looks to be a digdug bootleg.
Any value in it?

I was thinking to use a 60-in-1 board i allready got in the cab (after repairs, alot of repairs in the cab itself)..

Title: Re: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: lilshawn on July 25, 2013, 09:23:06 pm

Don't take our word as gospel. i mean, until you power it up and look at it on the monitor, you can't know for sure 100% what the board is. I don't know much about some of the older boards, but i know there where conversion kits available for some games to convert them to another game with just a swap of the roms, since the rest of the hardware was the same. perhaps this used to be a mappy and was converted to dig dug  :dunno

That said, if that's what it is, and you like dig dug, keep it and play it...if not, sell it off and buy yourself a few buttons.

Title: Re: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: Nephasth on July 26, 2013, 01:49:23 pm

Might be a game with a similar pinout as Dig Dug: http://www.arcade-museum.com/pinouts-class/Namco_Galaga.html (http://www.arcade-museum.com/pinouts-class/Namco_Galaga.html)

Title: Help identifying gameboard
Post by: dextercf on July 26, 2013, 06:32:18 pm

From that list there, i recon it is a digdug.
Since the yellow sticker mentioned earlier dates 1982.