What is a candy cab?
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The easy explanation is to google candy cabinets and electrocoin Goliath cabinets and view the images
Probably the most popular cabs of their own generation the candy are recent in an appealing white and handy home gamesroom size and adapt to many games
Goliath were an 80s interchangeable game cab as the name suggests pretty big and heavy but looked great in rows at sides of arcades… the screen was the first to rotate 90 degrees and the 28 way unigame wiring tho pre jamma - meant they took a number of different boards with short loom adapters for dedicated pcbs.. these also had flexi marquee title inserts which mounted behind clear plastic title bezel panels
Many companies in the 80s made a universal mass similar cab woody or black ash were common but the wiring and control panels were still dedicated or maybe only for Galaxian / Scramble based , or Konami or Atari games etc
These usually came with a fixed title and specific one or two button single player control panels and rarely adapted to driving games unless on joystick?
By the late 80s ……
Jamma various generic cabs soon followed which superceeded them and often had the same screen rotate too
Jamma adapters were still used to house older Konami style pcbs which were non jamma .
Probably the most popular cabs of their own generation the candy are recent in an appealing white and handy home gamesroom size and adapt to many games
Goliath were an 80s interchangeable game cab as the name suggests pretty big and heavy but looked great in rows at sides of arcades… the screen was the first to rotate 90 degrees and the 28 way unigame wiring tho pre jamma - meant they took a number of different boards with short loom adapters for dedicated pcbs.. these also had flexi marquee title inserts which mounted behind clear plastic title bezel panels
Many companies in the 80s made a universal mass similar cab woody or black ash were common but the wiring and control panels were still dedicated or maybe only for Galaxian / Scramble based , or Konami or Atari games etc
These usually came with a fixed title and specific one or two button single player control panels and rarely adapted to driving games unless on joystick?
By the late 80s ……
Jamma various generic cabs soon followed which superceeded them and often had the same screen rotate too
Jamma adapters were still used to house older Konami style pcbs which were non jamma .
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neo-geo-mvs
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Somebody is selling a candy cab here, take a look 👍
CMYKhazi-Dan
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All you need to know is that a candy cab is better than a woody cab. Same as 90s music is better than that 80s music nonsense 😃
What!? those are both false claims!
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CMYKhazi-Dan
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Candy cab. 30 minutes to take apart. 15 minutes to carry from garden to inside house. 30 mins to put back together. Beautiful 😍
Meanwhile... Me yesterday... 🤬😆
Only nearly died twice 😆🤘🤘
Meanwhile... Me yesterday... 🤬😆
Only nearly died twice 😆🤘🤘
CMYKhazi-Dan
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3 hours and 4 beers later that thing! Grr! You work out if it was worth the effort 🤣
Will update the woody with it's missing bits to make it look ok
Will update the woody with it's missing bits to make it look ok
maybe a candy cab it is a taxi that takes sweets instead of money as fare!
She will always tell you want you want to hear
Hard Candy is a good place for information (including criteria for what makes a candy cab)
www.hard--candy.com
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www.hard--candy.com
Ah so a standup nac isn’t a candy on its own merits according to the site.Hard Candy is a good place for information (including criteria for what makes a candy cab)
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But can be called a candy because of others in series being in Sitdown format.
I find this to be a bizarre criteria.
I don't want to split hairs based on someone else's criteria.. for what it's worth I'd have said a NUC was not strictly speaking a Candy cab.
I think the NUC was manufactured in the UK, and obviously they are standups. This has come up before and plenty of people think they are.. which is fine