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New HAPP horizontal pushbuttons sux! Stay away!
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on October 30, 2009, 07:19:21 pm ---It's a bit of a stretch to describe the wooden cabinets as being quintessentially American. In the eighties practically all cabinets, including the Japanese ones, were made of wood.
The Japanese kick started the video games craze with classic games such as Pacman, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong etc. All of those games were housed in wooden cabinets.
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Check your history. There were a lot of amusement machines in that same form, which were not even video based, long before Pac-Man was a twinkle in Toru Iwatani's eye.
Midway, the eventual distributor of PacMan, was an American corporation which had machines on location several years before the earliest Japanese video imports started arriving. It's more than just a little likely that these wooden cabinets coming from Japan were designed that way so they would fit with what the U.S. industry was already doing for many years.
RandyT
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: kowal on October 30, 2009, 04:59:18 pm ---
--- Quote --- japanese cab are more durable 80%
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sorry i lost "80% is metal"
metal does not rot, easy to paint it again
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Honest question -- have you ever restored wooden and metal cabs ?
I ask because among the items that always require restoration on any cab are the metal parts (e.g. coin door or control panel) and they typically require more effort than the wooden parts.
I don't know anybody who does restoration who would make a statement like "japanese cabs are 80% more durable".
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: RandyT on October 30, 2009, 07:36:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on October 30, 2009, 07:19:21 pm ---It's a bit of a stretch to describe the wooden cabinets as being quintessentially American. In the eighties practically all cabinets, including the Japanese ones, were made of wood.
The Japanese kick started the video games craze with classic games such as Pacman, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong etc. All of those games were housed in wooden cabinets.
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Check your history. There were a lot of amusement machines in that same form, which were not even video based, long before Pac-Man was a twinkle in Toru Iwatani's eye.
Midway, the eventual distributor of PacMan, was an American corporation which had machines on location several years before the earliest Japanese video imports started arriving. It's more than just a little likely that these wooden cabinets coming from Japan were designed that way so they would fit with what the U.S. industry was already doing for many years.
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Interesting observation ... I was going to suggest to kowal earlier that Candy cabs look more like US, particularly Atari, cabs from the 70s than anything else (certainly not like cocktails!).
The big difference in my mind is the height of the CP.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on October 30, 2009, 08:21:32 pm ---Interesting observation ... I was going to suggest to kowal earlier that Candy cabs look more like US, particularly Atari, cabs from the 70s than anything else (certainly not like cocktails!).
The big difference in my mind is the height of the CP.
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Yep, there does seem to be a connection with this one.....just modified for the sit-down gaming culture. Also interesting.
Beretta:
oh i whole heartily apologize for my ignorance on the origins of the "candy cab"
honestly you can't much blame me though i have never actually seen one in the person here in America.
now 80% might be made out of metal but the ones i've seen look awful lot like plastic, this would imply a newer design then the "old school" wooden cabs found in America because of the material being used.
to clear up something i was'nt saying only US cabs was wooden i was saying that pretty much all cabs i ever seen was made out of wood here in the US.
ya metal does'nt rot, it rusts (assuming it's made of iron/steal which i would assume.) it also dints where wood would take a blow and bounce back in most cases.
maybe 80% are metal, the ones i looked at i could swore was plastic.. regardless of material used i still consider them to be a inferior design due to having to sit down to play.. and personally find them displeasing to the eye, this may sound strange but they dont seem to have much "character" to them.. they seems sort of plan and utilitarian, where as most (but not all) cabs i see in the US have a sort of charm a curve here a slope there.
those who like the design have at it, if someone posted one on here i wouldn't dream of being so rude to tell them it sucks for that reason alone, if i was over at someones house i'd probably still play one.. but personally one would never be welcome in my house i truly dislike them that much.
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