Streets Donkey Kong

[ataridude74]

Must be quite a rare beast as I can't find any other photos of one. Very funky artwork!

It appears to be a Nintendo licensed product.

I've had it a couple of years, bought off ebay as a bit of an unknown, needed some work. Monitor was in bad shape, it had been covered in vinyl with an 90's neon vibe.

It had the original bezel, and fortunately the original marquee had only been reversed. I'd like to find a matching CPO to repro, the best I could do was paint it a matching colour.

It had been converted from a space shooter, as could be seen under the sideart, which I was able to save on one side only. It had a Crazy Kong PCB which I have kept, but must have been a DK originally as there is a dip-switch guide stapled on the inside.

Love that artwork?!?

Marquee has been reversed, and is in good shape

Bezel had a few marks but not bad overall

Appears to be licensed?

Side art also odd!

In its home in 'bootleg row'

Inside, with the DK dipswitch guide on left

Originally made by Barcrest

How it looked on e-bay, totally rad 90's vibe!

 

[iamjimmi]

Never seen the like of that before!

And you lucked out with the marquee!

 

[giantkeeling]

I love that Moon Cresta! I like bootlegs too. I have a bootleg Phoenix cocktail that was made in Loughborough, which is somewhere near Burton i think. The control panel on my Phoenix is very similar to your Moon Cresta, same font fo,r player one and two, and same round yellow start buttons. I'm pretty sure your Moon Cresta was made in the same area.

 

[_Matt_]

About time, been waiting over 2 years for more pics of this

Shame about the cp but love the bezel and that marquee!

My kind of cab, I've only ever seen 2 of these before (that I can remember). Nice little piece of our arcade history that could easily have just been lost and forgotten it ever existed.

 

[ataridude74]

Yeh, sorry, I am rubbish at taking photos. It was only that I had to pull it out to fix the power supply that I remembered I should have posted the photos years ago. I don't suppose you have any photos of the CP from one of these, it would really finish it off?

The Moon Cresta is an odd design, it has a 14" monitor, must be the same for yours. I like the way the CP is part of a drawer which slides out to hold the PCB and PSU, very neat. I read elsewhere that these were conversions for cocktails, hence the small monitor. Seems an odd thing to do.

 

[TDE_Rich]

Looks fantastic. Love the art - fairly sure it was licensed. Maybe you can work on a custom CPO with Olly?

 

[_Matt_]

I'll have a good look through old pics to see if I have one of a cp but I don't think I do.

The bezel in this pic is smaller in height than yours so I'm guessing it was taken from one of the slightly more common Streets cabs like the ones that they used for Defender (same shape also as the coinmaster cabarets) my point being that there must have been a fair few around so hopefully someone has one in storage you could copy. Also that style of cab would have definitely had a full art cp.

 

[ataridude74]

I see what you mean, my bezel is bigger than yours

I did think about asking Olly, the similarly gaudy Willis CP could be modified with the Streets characters.

I must get myself a DK board one day to better match it, although tbh I do enjoy Crazy Kong and have a decent score on it.

 

[_Matt_]

The bezel isn't mine by the way. You could certainly make a knew cpo based on the art on the bezel but I would ask around for a while first to see if anyone has an original control panel or even a cab. Who knows what people have in storage.