My first cabinet purchased in 2000

[Mark H]

Hi All,

This is a picture of my first cocktail cab that got me into this hobby/addiction ! I bought this around 2000 from Richard at Aztec Coin in Cheshire and it had a bootleg Phoenix PCB in it which was one of my favourite games at the time. It's a Nichibutsu that's been converted in the past before I bought it (as you can see from the non standard control panel and buttons). I put a 60 in 1 PCB into it so I can mainly play Phoenix, Pleiades, Scramble, Space Invaders, Galaxian etc. I then repaired the woodwork, repainted it and cleaned the rust off the legs. It's never missed a beat in around 20 years which isn't bad. I now have three other cabs which are Atari cabarets and that is my entire collection !

Cheers

Mark

 

[tinman]

A table top Moon Cresta was my first too; I gave it to some guy near Yarmouth to fix, and never heard back / saw it again

 

[andyman]

Defender was my first...£70 in 1985

 

[trev1976]

Defender was my first...£70 in 1985

That's mad , in 85 I had no idea anyone could own a cab at home , I was 9yrs old though

 

[RaveN]

A silverstar deluxe generic cab for £50 in 1996(?) I chose this over the £75 fully working Outrun cab sitting next to it as I wanted to be able to play more games.....

 

[namfreak]

Defender was my first...£70 in 1985

Wow that was a very good price in 85. Considering it would still be a good earner for an operator

 

[Smith]

Defender was my first...£70 in 1985

That would be the equivalent £184.20 today, I'll round it up to £200 if you want to move it on

 

[agent4125]

Flying Shark in an Electrocoin Midi for £110 back in '92 was my first. Bloody annoyed I sold it a few years later... probably to one of you lot without knowing it!!!

 

[Rasputin]

I bought a bootleg choplifter pcb in a BAS jamma cab in 1986-1987.. hard work getting it into my mums flat in Wimbledon bitd.

Cost me about £300, a few weeks after I bought a capcom Trojan pcb with an adaptor soldered to the board.

 

[positive logic]

Hi Mark
I`ve got a moon cresta the same as yours too and i`ve had it over 20 years.

Mine has the moon cresta game in it as wanted to keep it original.

I see you added an extra button on the control panel.

Just thinking about it my moon cresta probably hasn`t been switched on for approximately 10 years.

Robin

 

[Mark H]

Hi Robin,

The extra button was already added when I bought the machine. I think I paid about £300 for it from memory.

Yours sounds very original and probably worth £500 plus now...

Cheers

MarK

 

[andyman]

Defender was my first...£70 in 1985

Wow that was a very good price in 85. Considering it would still be a good earner for an operator

Cafe had closed down and all cabs had been moved out apart from this one as it wasnt working and had bits missing...literally, if I got there 10 minutes later, it would have been crushed under a demolished wall

Its not for sale at any price, it was a cab I played on quite a lot as a kid, some of the cig burns on the bezel are mine...CP was totally knackered so replaced that

 

[RygarR]

I used to fantasise about owning cabs bitd. The video games mags didn't help, with their competitions to win jamma board in flight cases. Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, I can now imagine what would have happened. My parents would have thrown a wobbly at the prospect of a whole cabinet in the house. And rightly so. It would have dominated my brother and I's bedroom. We would have had it for a few months. Either something would have failed (likely) or we would have got bored of it (even more likely). My dad would then have put it in the garage - straight onto the damp concrete floor - obvs. After a few more months it would have rotted beyond repair and then been thrown on the tip. Folks back then didn't know any better!RygarR2020-07-31 19:22:37

 

[andyman]

Mum & Dad were at work when I bought it...I took it round the back of the house and left in garden, then went back to work...I finished half an hour before anyone got home so had that time to take the monster through the kitchen, front room, round a sharp corner, up the stairs and into my bedroom...my room was 8ft square and there was a bed and a 4ft x 3ft Commodore exhibition stand in there already...I ended up with a 2ft space where I could see the carpet

Nearly 10 years it sat there in its unworking state, every morning it was the first thing I saw when I woke up...

 

[RygarR]

Brilliant! Sure I would have tried the same. Times really were so different back then. We didn't know jack about stuff, and had no way to find out. That's one reason why arcade machines seemed so magical!

Mum & Dad were at work when I bought it...I took it round the back of the house and left in garden, then went back to work...I finished half an hour before anyone got home so had that time to take the monster through the kitchen, front room, round a sharp corner, up the stairs and into my bedroom...my room was 8ft square and there was a bed and a 4ft x 3ft Commodore exhibition stand in there already...I ended up with a 2ft space where I could see the carpet 

Nearly 10 years it sat there in its unworking state, every morning it was the first thing I saw when I woke up...

 

[Alpha1]

2 Leisure 2000 JAMMA cabs £30 each. One had a RoboCop booty and the other was a pucka Carrier Air Wing.

Summer 1998!Alpha12020-07-31 20:22:33

 

[RygarR]

Ossum!

That's only a few months before I discovered MAME!

2 Leisure 2000 JAMMA cabs £30 each. One had a RoboCop booty and the other was a pucka Carrier Air Wing.

Summer 1998!