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There are just no words... I can't comprehend this..
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: Namco on December 20, 2009, 02:53:31 am ---I'm too dumb to figure this one out Kevin, lets just say Ginsu is right and call it a day. :)
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Eh... it's something I learned by sheer accident..... wish I knew the whole story/history behind it. One of the many little things that changed during the assembly line production, but never really got around to finding a particular batch of serial numbers or anything like that.
Here's a couple pics of three machines I had at one time when I noticed it.
What you'll see is that it is not only "reversed", it's actually the same stencil as what what used on the left side. (which is why it appears to just be reversed) The right side stencil on the other two is actually a different stencil all together. The only thing the same is the "Defender" section. You'll also note a totally different shade of paint was used on these "odd" machines. Most people that see this odd one thinks it was repainted or something, I can confirm it was not. And after seeing more of them, I'm convinced they came off the line this way.
There are construction differences too. Some have more plywood and others had more particle wood. I forget which had what now.
Namco:
Nice. I get it. It looks like at one point, they had two different stencils, one for each side which accounts for our oddball. But at some point they used one stencil for both sides.
This animated gif shows that clearly the middle one has two different stencils while the end ones use one stencil only.
TOK:
Pretty neat. I bet they were just slapping these together as quickly as possible. If a stencil got messed up and they were able to flip one to get some machines off the line -good enough.
My Bally/Midway cab's crossmembers and stringers are made from chopped up pieces of other Bally cabs.
telengard:
--- Quote from: TOK on December 16, 2009, 09:04:16 pm ---I don't think its so bad. None of the art hacked, original bezel. All it needs is a control panel and marquee to appear correct.
The thing I can't comprehend is wanting to play any Neo Geo game over Defender. ;)
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Ditto. The owner could easily "repent" and fix that bad boy up. ;)
~telengard
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