Ugliest cab ever contest...VOTE NOW !!!

[Level42]

Uhmmmmm, for what it's worth. Don't know how they teach history at your place, but Hitler was German (actualy Austrian, but that was about the same at the time he ruled...)

Suzo is DUTCH. (Actualy DUTCH comes from Deutsch, which means German, but apparantly in the past English speaking people couldn't hear the difference between our language and German....this is already painful enough as it is.....)

The Netherlands were run-over and occupied for 5 years and my family has suffered from it like most people here.

Be a bit more careful with your jokes please.

I'm not trying to convert everyone to Suzo, I'm just trying to put up for them because it's all Happs here....

[leapinlew]

Now come on Level42. Put on a bit thicker skin. It was an obvious attempt at humor. Lets not make this a political correct zone...

Pac-man is yellow - Asians everywhere will have to deal with it
Rush'n Attack - the bad guys are Russian... or appear to be russian
Donkey Kong is in fact, a primate and not a donkey at all
Ms. Pac-man has a baby pac-man despite being a Ms. and not a Mrs.
Nurses continue to die from accidental shootings in Operation Wolf (NOoo!)

I don't think anyone intended to cause you any personal harm. It's all in good fun.

[Zakk]

So Hitler didn't like Suzos?

[Level42]

Had they excisted then, he probably would, because he liked things that could aim and hit quicker than anything else......

[Zakk]

Had they excisted then, he probably would, because he liked things that could aim and hit quicker than anything else......

So Germany would have been the suzos, and The allies would have been the Wicos?

[Vigo]

 
Well, I guess the wicos won WW2...

[jlfreund]

This one is funny:

http://www.wickedretarded.com/%7Ecrapmame/4.html

[Level42]

Good that someone dug this up again....I still had to add this one:

Fax

Tooke the picture myself couple of weeks ago while visiting Funspot, Weirs Beach, IMHO that place is heaven on earth for classic arcade game lovers. Go there if you haven't been !!! www.funspotnh.com

Anyway, here's the ugly Fax machine:

[Level42]

OK, let's vote about what we feel is the Ugliest Arcade Cab ever.

Although I didn't mention this in my first posting and in the thread subject, I was actualy meaning real arcade cabs that once were built by "factories", not home-built (MAME) cabs. Even though I know that maybe the ugliest cabs DO come from the home-build scene, I think these must be ruled out because there's very likely only one "copy" of them around. (which is a good thing considering their uglyness ).

Now, dedicated cabs, the one's with original artwork for that single game, are rarely really ugly. You can discuss about them, but each one, maybe in their cheesy 70/80's way, are all works of art IMHO.

So, the one's that stick are mostly the non-original cabs, the universal cabs that take a PCB and play that game, and were meant to be put in commercial service and were built at least in small series.

So I selected these contenders:

1) Wimi's Style Video Game

Strong points: Tries to look like a cupboard but still has flashy colors on the marquee and bezel.
Weak points: Those curly carves look like a lot of work went into it.

2) World-Cup '90

Strong points: Where do I begin, about everything is MEGA ugly about this. The "marquee" definitly gives it bonus points on the Ugly-scale !
Weak points: uhmmmmmm,uhmmmmmm......

3) Poly Play

Strong points: Ugly wood-grain, wrong dimensions, looks like a 70's cab, but is from 1985.
Weak points: well-built, blinking colored lights behind marquee (or should that be a strong point ?), looks great next to your Trabant

4) "Burgertime" NOT THE ORIGINAL OF COURSE, but the one listed in this thread !

Strong points: Ugly woodgrain, WRONG silhouette, what is that bezel ?
Weak points: It has the original Burgertime marquee of the DECO release (check KLOV.com). But then, that might be a cheap copy

5) Homerson 1942

Pro: Small like a candy cab, but WAY uglier because it's too wide compared to it's height. Has fruitmachine buttons.
Con: Suzo joysticks that look like they've been there ever since the cab came into operation, (look how shiny those handles are !) and they still work great...

6) Fax

Pro: Looks like a jukebox, but then one of the REALY ugly one's. Yugh, again fruitmachine buttons, bet then it's a quitz game....   And again, this is more wide than tall. What's that little black thing in the middle ? Oh, it's the CRT !!!
Con: It had some clever compression technology to cram as many as possible questions in the little amount of RAM they had in those days.


I'm sure there are many more ugly cabs around, but I think it'll be fun to see who will win. Should we send an award

I know what my personal favorite is

[Kevin Mullins]

4) "Burgertime" NOT THE ORIGINAL OF COURSE, but the one listed in this thread !

FYI
That actually IS the original Data East (DECO) Burgertime ...... before Bally Midway bought the rights to it. This was when burgertime and several others were still run on a cassette tape sytem known as DECO Cassette System.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=B&game_id=7239
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=D&game_id=7479
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECO_Cassette_System


They also used a smaller "better" looking cab which I have. (overall better style anyways)
Highly universal cabs as well.
Which I need to take a pic of and post on KLOV or something because I can't find one on the web anywhere.

But I did find a "modified" verison of it that might be a good candidate for the "UGLY Poll".



The Burgertime in your poll list got my vote for sure though. 

[grantspain]

that last pic brought back some memory's,when i first started work we had loads of those cabs-was'nt it one of the first systems to use cartidges(its a long time ago),anyway the games were rubbish and we ended up putting on electronic coin mechs and rewiring for our own pre-jamma universal edge connector but they still looked pants

[Level42]

Still, I think it's a beauty compared to the current leader in the poll

[RayB]

New contenders:
The "Nitendo" cab: Let's you play NES games on a timer (and includes a wonderful little viewing window displaying the NES inside).


Next up, something that looks like it was built by the Borg:

[grantspain]

that last one looks like its been in a fire,and you are correct the world cup 90 cab is really poo,it looks like it was knocked up in someone's shed

[AE35]

Uhmmmmm, for what it's worth. Don't know how they teach history at your place, but Hitler was German (actualy Austrian, but that was about the same at the time he ruled...)

Suzo is DUTCH. (Actualy DUTCH comes from Deutsch, which means German, but apparantly in the past English speaking people couldn't hear the difference between our language and German....this is already painful enough as it is.....)

The Netherlands were run-over and occupied for 5 years and my family has suffered from it like most people here.

Well said. People should know the most important conflict in history and who did what,
when and why. Holland is a very perfect example of a highly evolved country.

EDIT: Why IS Donkey Kong called a Donkey, anyway??

[RayB]

Im sure Wiki has the answer to that...

[Lutus]

Is that Hitler at the top of the Bezel/Marquee of the "Fax" machine?   

[saint]

Pretty sure it was a mistranslation from Japanese?

Well said. People should know the most important conflict in history and who did what,
when and why. Holland is a very perfect example of a highly evolved country.
EDIT: Why IS Donkey Kong called a Donkey, anyway??

[horseboy]

Pretty sure it was a mistranslation from Japanese?

Well said. People should know the most important conflict in history and who did what,
when and why. Holland is a very perfect example of a highly evolved country.
EDIT: Why IS Donkey Kong called a Donkey, anyway??

The story I read said that it was a bad fax from Japan. It was supposed to be Monkey King. M mistaken for a D and I mistaken for an O.

[RayB]

OK, fine I'll look it up... Here:

(From Wiki)
The name was chosen by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto as a combination of the word "Kong", since the movie King Kong had caused it 'to colloquially mean monkey' in Japan. According to Snopes, Donkey was chosen because Miyamoto intended it "to convey a sense of stubbornness." Various urban legends have circulated, saying that the actual name was to be "Monkey Kong" but was changed by accident for the American release. Snopes debunked these myths in "Donkey Wrong."

And the link to the snopes myth debunking:
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/donkeykong.asp

[spacies]

Jeepers,

There is some ugly beasts in here! 

I think I have seen uglier in the project announcements though     

Come on, someone had to say it 

[johnm160]

I never saw that crap mame site before.

That has got to be one of the funniest sites on the web, I was laughing so hard I woke my daughter up.    

[shardian]

Just thought I would add this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pac-Gal-Arcade-Game-Ms-Pac-Man-Hack_W0QQitemZ260038819995QQihZ016QQcategoryZ13716QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[RayB]

At least that's not painted black.

[Level42]

Well this has taken long enough, so the honerable winner of the Ugliest Cab Ever Contest is........

World-Cup '90

Although Fax and "Burgertime" were a close runner-up, the World-Cup '90 has everything it takes to deserve the title Ugliest Cab Ever:

- horable wood-syle boards which are way too thin and put together in all the wrong ways and places...
- a pick-up letter marquee...
- totaly wrong buttons...
- t-molding ? What IS that ?
- a general uglyness that is all over the cabinet, no "weak" spots to be found.

Congratulations, alas there's no prices in this contest except for eternal "fame"

Thanks for all contributing !!!