Saturday, January 30, 2010

The way it was (almost)...

I didn't take any pictures of the cabinet when I got it, but I found a website where a guy who also had one of these has posted a lot of pictures and even a video clip that shows it off very well. There's a lot more there than most will really care about, so here's a nice thumbnail pic just to show the overall design of the cabinet. Click the photo to visit the website.













It's not obvious in the pic above, but someone has added a yellow button where the speaker grille is, and also replaced the "jump" button with a standard-sized yellow one (the original buttons on these cabinets were like the blue start button in the upper-left corner of the control panel). Mine thankfully didn't have a button in the speaker grille, and as I mentioned in the last post, two standard buttons had been added where the original one was. I've found some smaller buttons to use as start buttons, and I plan to replace the buttons that came with the cabinet with new ones. I do need to add a button on the outside of the cabinet to add credits (the coin slots actually do work, and I can access the coin box to get my quarters back, but that's too much of a hassle), and also another one to exit the current game and select another one, but I'm definitely not going to drill a hole in the speaker grille.

Well, there's how it all started (or at least ALMOST what it looked like when I got it). I'll be back soon with a preview of the new logo for the cabinet.