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Title: Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SONIC on April 10, 2003, 01:33:13 pm
Inspirated by an other thread onhere I made these "Name your favorite cab(s)"-thread.
Which cab would you love to own?
For me it's deffo stuff like Bubble Bobble, R-Type, Jackal, Outrun, Double Dragon... many more outthere I would love to have, but those are the ones I would like to own most :)

Got dreams? Got hope? Got wishes? Share it here :)

Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: rampy on April 10, 2003, 01:48:47 pm
Upright star wars with the ESB/SW chip or both boards or whatever.

Punch Out

A multislot  Neo Geo for flexibility / turfmasters

A pinball (maybe guns n' roses one? I never played it, though)

Golden Tee or maybe a centipede, I guess...

... rampy
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SNAAAKE on April 10, 2003, 04:24:29 pm
Inspirated by an other thread onhere I made these "Name your favorite cab(s)"-thread.
Which cab would you love to own?
For me it's deffo stuff like Bubble Bobble, R-Type, Jackal, Outrun, Double Dragon... many more outthere I would love to have, but those are the ones I would like to own most :)

Got dreams? Got hope? Got wishes? Share it here :)



Street Fighter Alpha 2
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Silent Scope 2(the one with a sniper rifle).
Silent Scope
Ferrari 355 with 3 screen.
Rush 2049
time crisis 2(---gosh-darn---! ANYONE PLAYED :D?)

I was actually thought about buying sfa 2 cabinet before I found out about mame.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: MilitiaMan on April 10, 2003, 06:27:43 pm
Simple!

1. Donkey Kong (would be nice if it had both DK and DK Jr. boards)
2. Stargate
3. Tempest
4. The newest Golden Tee

MM
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Thenasty on April 10, 2003, 08:56:25 pm
It would be "All the Vector Games" nothing compares to Vector Monitors.
Those Duramold Cabinets
and of course Marble Madness 2: Marble Man so I can get it dump and share to the Mame Community :) *HINT* *HINT*
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SirPoonga on April 10, 2003, 10:09:36 pm
discs of tron enrivornmental
fire truck
afterburner
Star Trek
double dragon II (wait, I have that one, sorry)
space duel
8 daytona2 machines
Hyperbowl
Mario Bros
Pac-man
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Brax on April 10, 2003, 10:10:21 pm
It would be "All the Vector Games" nothing compares to Vector Monitors.
Those Duramold Cabinets
and of course Marble Madness 2: Marble Man so I can get it dump and share to the Mame Community :) *HINT* *HINT*
Somebody needs to break into that guys house and nab that board!  ;D
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Odonadon on April 11, 2003, 12:08:33 am
After Burner II
Galaga

Odonadon
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Brax on April 11, 2003, 12:16:43 am
Dig Dug Boulder cab!!!!

Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Generic Eric on April 11, 2003, 02:16:45 am
8 daytona2 machines

Only 8?
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Generic Eric on April 11, 2003, 02:18:34 am
I'd like to have a Terminator 2 game.  Actually, the one my dad and I played on at Putt-Putt.
You can read the sappy story on my web page.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: kspiff on April 11, 2003, 03:04:02 am
720.. Assault 8).. APB (got it ;D).. Escape from the Planet of Robot Monsters.. and pretty much every game from the 'Namco Museum' series (hm.. yeah, I think GaPlus was on there somewhere ::)).

Too bad I'll never get half of these, unless I find them as fix-er-uppers.  Oh, well; I've got a project lined up.. a JAMMA+ multigame (maybe, might just manually switch to save $$$) for all the vertical SNK LS-30 games :o.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: cdbrown on April 11, 2003, 05:46:10 am
Narc (original revision)
6-player X-men
Power Drift (sit down)
Roadblasters (sit down)
Gauntlet Legends
Cruis'n USA
Maximum Hangtime or NBA Jam TE
Double Dragon
Xybots
and pretty much every other game ever made.

Cheers
-cdbrown
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: paigeoliver on April 11, 2003, 07:48:33 am
A big screen Pump it Up "The Premier".

Missile Command cockpit.

Turbo Cockpit.

Star Wars cockpit.

STUN Runner

Peter Packrat

Robotron cocktail (so I don't have to bash player 2 out of the way as soon as he dies).

Sega R-360

Now, at first I thought this thread was supposed to be about which cabinets you wanted. Not which games. Cabinet choices are a little different.

For vertical games nothing beats the Midway Pac/Galaga/Bosconian style cabinets.

For fighting games, sports games, and scrollers I like those 33" cabinets that have the control panel on a separate little pedestal.

For older horizontal games I like Williams cabinets. The monitors being right at eye level helps you to see EVERYTHING.

When in doubt, you can't go wrong with an Atari cabinet. They usually have great artwork.

The Buck Rogers cockpit is especially cool looking, even if the game isn't that great.

Now, as to which cabinets I actually do own?

Assault, Turbo, Jamma cabinet (Former Arabian), Top Gunner (Former Galaxian), Kangaroo, Crystal Castles, Artic Mini, generic gambling upright, Carnival cocktail, generic cocktail, Time Pilot cocktail, and a Jack the Giantkiller cocktail.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Zinfari on April 11, 2003, 11:22:21 am
Discs of Tron enrivornmental
Star Wars Cockpit
Gauntlet 1 & 2 - 4 player
Super Sprint
NBA Hangtime
Newest Golden Tee

and... a room to hold it all!

-Zinfari
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: said7 on April 11, 2003, 11:29:33 am
Killer Instinct and

Starship Troopers pinball
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: mpm32 on April 11, 2003, 11:49:38 am
Battle Zone with the periscope and an Afterburner cockpit, the one that the cockpit moves.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: radiator on April 11, 2003, 05:09:02 pm
Star Wars cockpit
Pacland
Sega Rally

er...Operation Wolf would be nice too...

*m
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SirPoonga on April 11, 2003, 05:58:08 pm
8 daytona2 machines

Only 8?
Yeah, I think that's the limit.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Cue-Ball on April 11, 2003, 06:53:28 pm
I'll make it an even dozen choices.  In the following order:

1) Discs of Tron environmental
(i've actually got a lead on an upright of this game.  Just need to buy a house first so i have the room.  It will be mine.  Oh yes, it will be mine. :) )
2) Race Drivin'
3) Star Wars cockpit
4) Galaga
5) Ms Pac-Man (gotta have one pick for the SO ;) )
6) Centipede (i can't get enough of this game)
7) Battlezone (i played this SO much as a kid)
8) Burger Time
9) 6-player X-Men (the HUGE cab with the multiple screens)
10) Tron
11) Tempest (a beautiful cabinet with a simple, yet fun and addicting game).
12) Wurlitzer Jukebox (no arcade is complete without a jukebox)
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Vampyre on April 11, 2003, 08:05:17 pm
a TMNT cab with the sideart would be awesome.
got the cab ,. just not the sideart.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Pixelhugger on April 11, 2003, 08:15:30 pm
10) Space Invaders - Started it all for me.
9) Gorf - Because it talked.
8) Berzerk - Because it did too, and back then that was pretty new wave IMHO
7) Joust - Two player simultaneous goodness
6) Mario Brothers - See above
5) Missile Command - It wasn't until decades after first playing this that I moved to LA and found the military actually had a plan to use the same strategy in case of an attack from the Soviets over the Pacific. The missile control bunkers/towers still extist in the mountains above LA. The idea? Launch a nuke within a few miles at incoming bombers/ICBMs and, well..basically you have Missile Command.
4) Scamble
3) Pac Man
2) Donkey Kong
 and
1) Dragon's Lair. 50% for its innovation and 50% for it's 3 sided marquee.
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SONIC on April 12, 2003, 05:02:14 am
Scramble... yeah baby... the very first game I ever played, on the first computer I had, my Commodore 16 :) What times that was :)

To be honest, it's first later I reckognized that Scrample also was an arcade :) How cool, so now it runs in MAME, totally tops :)
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: radiator on April 12, 2003, 02:34:55 pm
oooh, well, if it's not just arcade cabs I'd also love some kind of Allwin machine, and definatly a Pachinko machine...

a pinball table would be nice too

 :P
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Frostillicus on April 12, 2003, 03:22:33 pm
1) starwars sitdown
2) DOT enviromental
3) dig dug
4) galaga cocktail
5) spy hunter sitdown
6) dragon's lair
6) boongaboonga (it'd be such a hit at parties!!)
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Brax on April 12, 2003, 04:05:35 pm
1) starwars sitdown
2) DOT enviromental
3) dig dug
4) galaga cocktail
5) spy hunter sitdown
6) dragon's lair
6) boongaboonga (it'd be such a hit at parties!!)

And where would you fit all the people for this party? hehe
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Frostillicus on April 12, 2003, 08:03:36 pm
1) starwars sitdown
2) DOT enviromental
3) dig dug
4) galaga cocktail
5) spy hunter sitdown
6) dragon's lair
6) boongaboonga (it'd be such a hit at parties!!)

And where would you fit all the people for this party? hehe

Heh - not in my current pad.  There would be room, but i'd have to lose all my other furniture  :P
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: spidermonkey on April 13, 2003, 12:12:04 am
Three of the coolest cabs ever !

#1 Sinistar Duramold cabinet
#2 I Robot cab by Atari
#3 Dedicated Wacko cab by Bally/Midway
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: kspiff on April 13, 2003, 03:10:08 am
Frost, just sleep in one of those environmentals.. I seem to remember the DoTs being pretty roomy ;D

Another game I would like is CyberSled.. not because it's the bomb per se (although it is a cool game), but because I found one for $250.. but then I realized -- beyond the mystery of where I would put such a behemoth -- that I can't even get it into my house or my friend's shop.

Bollocks.  At least I didn't figure that one out on the way home with it, right? :P
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SONIC on April 13, 2003, 07:03:30 am
Oh damn, I almost forgot one of the sweetest classics... Ghost'n Goblins... damn I really want a such machine with the original game in it... jesus :)

Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Pipercub on April 13, 2003, 04:20:51 pm
Asteroids Delux   GOT IT
Q*Bert                 GOT IT
Galaga
Pac Man
Mario Bros
Donkey Kong
Pong
Golden Axe
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: 2slk on April 14, 2003, 02:49:27 am
Tron, tron and TRON!!!!
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: paigeoliver on April 14, 2003, 02:54:01 am
Three of the coolest cabs ever !

#1 Sinistar Duramold cabinet
#2 I Robot cab by Atari
#3 Dedicated Wacko cab by Bally/Midway

There was a guy on the newsgroups a while back who was having trouble giving away an I-Robot cabinet. Google groups probably still has it somewhere.

Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: Pooman2084 on April 15, 2003, 12:25:08 pm
Robotron! (in process of restoring)

I have an R-Type pcb, but the cab would be great.

I'd love:

Mr Do (feel the gameplay.....)
Burger Time
Ferrari F355 3 screener (best driving game IMO)
Star wars sit down
Mikie (don't know why, I just love it!)
Defender (my next project)

Isn't wierd we all have our nostalgic classics that other, just as enthusiastic collectors hate
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SirPoonga on April 15, 2003, 01:11:28 pm
Ferrari F355 3 screener (best driving game IMO)
That's cool, but no whole chassis movement.

Oh, I have to add a 6th to my list, Turret Tower, 360 degrees of motion sickness.  Gotta love a cockpit cabinet in which you have the lock the door and fasten the seat belt and pressure plates in the floor so only ONE person is allowed in the cabinet.  You can get dizzy in this cabinet.  Only thing I wish would be an external cabinet so on-lookers can see what you are doing.
http://www.namcoarcade.com/nai_gamedisplay.asp?gam=turtow
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: SirPoonga on April 15, 2003, 01:13:03 pm
Heh - not in my current pad.  There would be room, but i'd have to lose all my other furniture  :P
Priorities
Title: Re:Which cabinet do you really wish you had?
Post by: CitznFish on April 15, 2003, 07:18:29 pm
[size=20] ALL OF THEM [/size]

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