What is this ugly cab?

[trollnest]

I got this off of craigslist a while ago and I was wondering if anyone can name what this might have been originally
The previous owner pulled it out of a hotel, The marquee was the hotels logo!!? 
note: The woodgrain is kinda growing on me...

[gonzojoey]

That's a Sega / Gremlin style cabinet. Judging by the P1 and P2 button locations, I'd say maybe an Astro Blaster?

[trollnest]

DAMN! on the first try no less. Hats off to you sir!

[trollnest]

Now I wonder what the cpo was for. hrmmm

[gonzojoey]

it may not be an "original" AstroBlaster since the cab is slightly different at the bottom and the coin door isn't the same...but those Sega cabs were used for a lot of conversions, so no telling what is was in the past. My Frogger cabinet was an Arkanoid and a "something else" (not sure what it was ) at one point.

[Malenko]

button layout screams "Time Killers" to me

hot linked from KLOV:



http://www.klov.com/images/11/118124218380.jpg

[trollnest]

TIME KILLERS!!
I loved that game when I was a kid, nothing like sawing off an opponents arm

[Crowquill]

I'd guess it was orginally a bootleg or generic cabinet. Sega's Convert-A-Cab (Frogger-style cabinet) was a very popular design to rip off for bootlegs. The one I have (now my MAME cab) was originally "Crazy Kong". The bottom of yours is a bit different than the Sega cabs and the coin door appears to be a Midway-style door.

Control panel could be from anything. Sega designed them so that they could easily be swapped. I believe all of the control panels for the Convert-a-Cab II's (Zaxxon-style cabinet) would also fit the earlier cabs. My bootleg cabinet has a Frogger control panel on it. It fits perfectly. The button layout doesn't really match Astro-Blaster's. Maybe this was some type of replacement panel. The button layout definitely looks a whole lot like Time Killers (which is pretty unique). Are the bolt holes for the joysticks square? That would indicate to me that they were probably factory punched. Can you tell which are the original holes?

[astrothug]

ya looks like an zaxxon cab i have one that i converted to mame, when i got it, it had the zaxxon paper and other things stapled to the inside the machine.

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