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Title: Help identifying a machine
Post by: myakka on January 09, 2016, 11:30:34 am
I have a gambling machine from a bar that recently closed.  It says Nintendo on the plate on the back of it.  Model # is TKG4-UP-US, which google shows as a Donkey Kong 3 arcade machine? Serial # is 31507.


EDIT: Added some pics
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: paigeoliver on January 09, 2016, 11:13:55 pm
What are you asking as it seems like you already identified it. ???
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: Admiral688 on January 09, 2016, 11:49:16 pm
Pics would help.
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: vwalbridge on January 10, 2016, 12:26:13 am
If arcades are considered gambling machines then I must have a gambling problem.
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: paigeoliver on January 10, 2016, 04:12:19 pm
Pics would help.

Pictures where you can see the cabinet instead of the gambling machine parts would also help.

But from what I can see it does look like a Donkey Kong to 8-liner conversion.
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: Admiral688 on January 10, 2016, 04:15:22 pm
Do you have pics from the inside also? Perhaps you are lucky and the original DK hardware is still inside.
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: paigeoliver on January 10, 2016, 10:59:04 pm
Do you have pics from the inside also? Perhaps you are lucky and the original DK hardware is still inside.

That never happens. Money, drugs and sex toys are found inside conversion cabinets 20x more often than original boards are.
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: vwalbridge on January 10, 2016, 11:15:10 pm
Do you have pics from the inside also? Perhaps you are lucky and the original DK hardware is still inside.

That never happens. Money, drugs and sex toys are found inside conversion cabinets 20x more often than original boards are.

You say that like that's a bad thing?
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: Osirus23 on January 10, 2016, 11:20:29 pm
Do you have pics from the inside also? Perhaps you are lucky and the original DK hardware is still inside.

That never happens. Money, drugs and sex toys are found inside conversion cabinets 20x more often than original boards are.

I'd take that over original DK hardware any day.
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: paigeoliver on January 11, 2016, 12:21:12 pm
Just saying it is really unlikely. I have purchased hundreds of games over the years and peaked inside thousands (at auctions, warehouses, etc) and not one time have I ever seen a conversion game with the original board still inside. There are a FEW guys at klov who have found games that way, but it basically just doesn't happen, at least not with original boards. Original power supplies however often stay in the cabinet even if the machine got converted to a switcher.

Do you have pics from the inside also? Perhaps you are lucky and the original DK hardware is still inside.

That never happens. Money, drugs and sex toys are found inside conversion cabinets 20x more often than original boards are.

You say that like that's a bad thing?
Title: Re: Help identifying a machine
Post by: Automark on January 11, 2016, 03:59:59 pm
How can we identify a cab, if you don't make photos of the cab?

But yeah, it probably was a donkey kong