Leisure 2000 Cabs

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Wondering if anyone has any info/history on these cabinets?

I am currently on the lookout for a first cabinet and aside from racers etc. most of what pops up around me are these. Not only that but any multigame arcade cabinet I stumble across in a pub or a snooker hall these days seems to be one of these cabinets too.

My (very) vague memories of arcades are of Electrocoins but I can't ever remember seeing these Leisure 2000s.

Am I just confused or were these not as common back in the day and, if they weren't as common back in the day, where have they all come from?
 
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I think they were kits put together by a local distributor. Back then they'd order the cabs and internal parts, get their own artwork made up for them and site them/sell them. Like your Winfall, Keeday, AMR cabs and the like. They would have been local to a distributors area so you would never have seen them. But with the power of the internet, now you do!
 
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Generic jamma cabinet, good choice for a first cabinet. They're all pretty much the same just comes down to personal preference and which you like the look of, Silverlines and Goliaths are also popular.
 
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Funnily enough one of the arcades i went to as a kid in Paignton was called Leisure 2000. It's actually still there with the same name.

Couldn't reccomend a trip to it these days though....
 
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