Pics of a Pac-Land cocktail cab anywhere?

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Just a quickie. Does anyone have any pics of an original Pac-Land cocktail cab or know where there are any pics of one? I've scoured the net but am coming up blank at the moment. I'm particularly interested in the button layout of the player 2 control panel. More specifically, I want to know if there are 1 and 2 player start buttons on that control panel. The code in the game seems to support them but the Mame driver doesn't so I can't actually check for a change in their status.

Is it common for cocktail cabs to have 1 and 2 player start buttons on both control panels?

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This is how the Namco version is laid out. The start buttons are on the face of the cabinet on the 1P side (but the panel has plugged holes where the 1/2P buttons could be):

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I know of a guy that had a Namco cocktail that was seemingly converted by Atari for a former Atari employee to Ms. Pac-Man, complete with cut-up Super Sprint bezel, Tengen Pac-Man artwork and Nintendo VS. joysticks
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Thanks very much for this. I've never seen a Pac-Land cocktail cabinet before you'd posted this flyer. Seems odd as to why they've chosen to only put a single jump button on the control panel of the cocktail whereas the upright has a jump button at either side of the directional buttons allowing for easy left or right handed play. I'm left handed and I play using my left hand for the directions and my right hand for jump. I'd struggle playing the other way around, which a cocktail cab would force me to do.

The Bally Midway Pac-Land flyer has a wireframe image of a cocktail cabinet but it appears to be wrong as the monitor appears to be in a vertical configuration for where the control panel is positioned. I'm guessing it was just a quick mock up to get the flyer out before they'd finalised the cabinet design.

Looks like the 1 and 2 player start buttons are the red buttons to the left of the control panel, on the wooden section. I wonder if there are similar start buttons on the 2-player side.

Many thanks for this anyway.
 
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