GunSmoke Guy
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A Pooyan in the rough... Finally one of my quests has ended !
I noticed a local craigslist ad for a "Commando" pictured here:

claimed in the ad, it was working 100% for 3 bills, and noticed it was posted a few days ago. My first thought was this thing is most certainly sold. But more importantly I noticed that it was inside a Stern cabinet, specifically a Bagman / Pooyan / Minefield. Those of you who don't know I have been searching for a long time for a "Pooyan", as was Killert6969 (Troy) who nabbed one from Anthony at Quarter arcade. As far as I'm concerned it's a pretty rare cabinet to find (specifically pooyan). In the few years I was looking I saw maybe 1 for sale in CA (Wrong coast, and that one supposedly had water damage) I couldn't justify shipping a game especially with water damage for an exuberant amount of money. Some one on the forum even offered me a FREE bagman "empty" cabinet in PA.. which I was seriously thinking about but had a large chunk cut out of the front and was stripped etc. Over the course of the years I've been searching for a complete cab I managed to snatch up all the necessary parts should I ever find the actual cab. Dedicated bent marquee, NOS CPO,PCB, (Brian Jones aka Prok) Side art.
I said alright I might as well call the guy to see which stern cab it was or if it's still even available... To my first surprise it was still available. I asked since in the photo it didn't show the sides at all "what color was the cabinet." the guy replied it was yellow. I said ok, it's 100% likely a Bagman, I still wanted to visually check it out. At this point I get to his house, the cabinet was complete and I said can I have a look inside the cabinet.. to my delight I saw BLUE over spray from the Stern factory! The guy said.. you know what I think I see blue behind the yellow laminate / Formica. He peeled away the yellow laminate / Formica and sure enough not only was it blue but you were able to see the out line from the original Pooyan side art, including the serial number on the side of the cab. I was incredibly stoked at this point ! I couldn't believe that I found my Pooyan after all these years merely only 10 miles from my house! Not only that, but the monitor was working with a G07 inside. The guy said to me if you want it how about 200... I said yes!
I honestly would probably of bought it even if it was a Bagman cabinet anyways, personally I don't enjoy Bagman's gameplay and would of been happy to paint it blue! According to Jon aka eXidy he said the only differences in the bagman / pooyan cabinets are a support piece of wood which I did notice on the Pooyan which was converted to the commando. Other than that if it's in a line-up you can't tell.
**Just curious if Data East / Capcom ever actually distributed the yellow laminet with the commando kits or if this was something done by the person. It looked like it was cut perfectly.
Any ways this was taken with my cell phone after peeling some of the laminet to reveal that it is infact an original blue paint *(along with the shitty adhesive i'm going to need to goof-off) from Pooyan! The other side which isn't shown had the serial as well as the pooyan sideart outline:

More pics to follow tomorrow when I have more time to work on my POOYAN Project !!
I noticed a local craigslist ad for a "Commando" pictured here:

claimed in the ad, it was working 100% for 3 bills, and noticed it was posted a few days ago. My first thought was this thing is most certainly sold. But more importantly I noticed that it was inside a Stern cabinet, specifically a Bagman / Pooyan / Minefield. Those of you who don't know I have been searching for a long time for a "Pooyan", as was Killert6969 (Troy) who nabbed one from Anthony at Quarter arcade. As far as I'm concerned it's a pretty rare cabinet to find (specifically pooyan). In the few years I was looking I saw maybe 1 for sale in CA (Wrong coast, and that one supposedly had water damage) I couldn't justify shipping a game especially with water damage for an exuberant amount of money. Some one on the forum even offered me a FREE bagman "empty" cabinet in PA.. which I was seriously thinking about but had a large chunk cut out of the front and was stripped etc. Over the course of the years I've been searching for a complete cab I managed to snatch up all the necessary parts should I ever find the actual cab. Dedicated bent marquee, NOS CPO,PCB, (Brian Jones aka Prok) Side art.
I said alright I might as well call the guy to see which stern cab it was or if it's still even available... To my first surprise it was still available. I asked since in the photo it didn't show the sides at all "what color was the cabinet." the guy replied it was yellow. I said ok, it's 100% likely a Bagman, I still wanted to visually check it out. At this point I get to his house, the cabinet was complete and I said can I have a look inside the cabinet.. to my delight I saw BLUE over spray from the Stern factory! The guy said.. you know what I think I see blue behind the yellow laminate / Formica. He peeled away the yellow laminate / Formica and sure enough not only was it blue but you were able to see the out line from the original Pooyan side art, including the serial number on the side of the cab. I was incredibly stoked at this point ! I couldn't believe that I found my Pooyan after all these years merely only 10 miles from my house! Not only that, but the monitor was working with a G07 inside. The guy said to me if you want it how about 200... I said yes!
I honestly would probably of bought it even if it was a Bagman cabinet anyways, personally I don't enjoy Bagman's gameplay and would of been happy to paint it blue! According to Jon aka eXidy he said the only differences in the bagman / pooyan cabinets are a support piece of wood which I did notice on the Pooyan which was converted to the commando. Other than that if it's in a line-up you can't tell.
**Just curious if Data East / Capcom ever actually distributed the yellow laminet with the commando kits or if this was something done by the person. It looked like it was cut perfectly.
Any ways this was taken with my cell phone after peeling some of the laminet to reveal that it is infact an original blue paint *(along with the shitty adhesive i'm going to need to goof-off) from Pooyan! The other side which isn't shown had the serial as well as the pooyan sideart outline:

More pics to follow tomorrow when I have more time to work on my POOYAN Project !!






