A free pickup, it even works... but WTF was it?

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Currently a Tetris bootleg with a busted marquee and mono sound (and a backwards CPO). The transformer is screaming Atari at me for some reason, but none of the silhouettes are matching the cab. Just curious what this used to be...
 

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That's and nice Tetris conversion.. At least it's something worth restoring back into unlike mine. :(
 
Maybe the screen burn will shed some light on this?
 

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I don't think that's the monitor that came with the cabinet, `cause that's Tutankham burn in...
 
it's either Juno First, Krull, or The Three Stooges. i don't see any of JF's purple or 3S's light blue under any of that chipped black paint, so i'd also go with Krull as the most likely guess.

those cabs take a shelf-mount monitor and only 3S took a horizontal mount so it could be original only if the cab is a 3S.

you can probably take the paint off the part of the cab right under the CP and check to see which game it was. all three had the same sort of extended CP graphics as Q*Bert and they usually were just painted over by the ops when converted.

the Atari power supply in the bottom may have be left over from an earlier conversion than Tetris.
 
So... so far, I have a Gottileb cab, Atari PS, burn from a Stern game, a bootleg Tetris PCB hooked up to a JAMMA harness that says Double Dragon on it... What should I do with this thing?
 
So... so far, I have a Gottileb cab, Atari PS, burn from a Stern game, a bootleg Tetris PCB hooked up to a JAMMA harness that says Double Dragon on it... What should I do with this thing?

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Are you saying I need to add a phone to this cab? :D

Its looking more and more like Krull. Dosent seem to be any hacks to the CP (aside from added fire buttons) and it looks like there was inner artwork once thats been painted over with the rest of the cab.
 

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