About Time I Announced My Project

[TheGatesofBill]

I haven't done much work yet (in fact I haven't named it), but I have started it. I'm converting a stripped Mr. Do! (wood style) cabinet into a MAME machine. I currently have a 17" monitor for use in it, but I hope to pick up a 20" instead.

The website for this project is: http://1337ghetto.kicks-ass.net/arcade/

Oh, and I always forget to update it, so don't be surprised that there is no recent news.

[paigeoliver]

Good luck. I like the woodgrain cabinets. They are great choices for Mame.

One comment though. That is not a Mr. Do! cabinet. About 90 percent of Mr. Do! machines were conversions, and the dedicated ones looked like this.

That is an early Sega/Gremlin cabinet. Pre 82 (sometime in 82 they switched designs). It is probably a Frogger, otherwise it is either an Astro Blaster or a Pulsar.

[paigeoliver]

Compare this picture to your cabinet and you will see what I am talking about.

[AlanS17]

Compare this picture to your cabinet and you will see what I am talking about.

You probably know more about original machines than most operators...

[TheGatesofBill]

Wow, thanks for the help tracking that down. I assumed it was a Mr. Do! because it has a Mr. Do! schematic stuck to the inside of it. The picture you posted does look like my cabinet, exept my coin door seems to be wider and less tall than the one pictured.

[paigeoliver]

Exact coin doors sometimes vary on some manufacturers. Atari and Midway were both pretty consistant (especially Midway, all their classic titles have the same basic coin door, Atari made a single switch from square to over/under sometime around late 81, early 82). Other manufacturers were not so consistant. If they ran out of one door, they just ordered another kind to get the games out the door.

[AlanS17]

I didn't have a name to anywhere on my machine to determine what my game ever was. All it had was the original Data East logo under the awful Batman conversion. I recognized it as a Bad Dudes by the original control panel button layout. Sometimes you just gotta pay attention to the little things.

[spidermonkey]

Paige, are you sure thats a Sega cab ? Most classic sega cabs had the foot kick plate area recessed on the bottom front of the cabinet. His cab looks like the front panel just goes straight down all the way to the floor. I'm not sure if all Sega cabs had recessed kick plates. Maybe not, Just curious.

[paigeoliver]

No, I am not sure. You can never be sure with non Atari/Williams/Midway cabinets, because the other makers largely ordered their cabinets from 3rd parties. Every other line on the cabinet appears to match, except for that front panel that goes all the way down. Even the side panels drop in the same.

That leads me to believe that it is either an alternate version of the standard early Sega/Gremlin cabinet. Or possibly the design may have changed at some point (likely in the pre Frogger era). Other possibilities are that the front panel may have been replaced after some vandalism (and straight down would be easier to do than more than one piece). I had a Nintendo cabinet like that one, front panel had been replaced, and you could see the sideart to some other game on the inside of it (obviously chopped off another cabinet).

I am going to see if I can find a picture of a Sega/Gremlin (not Nichitbitsu) Super Moon Cresta, as that may be the ticket (I remember my friend used to have one, and it looked just like that, except black).

Or, I could just be totally wrong.