Another Exidy Cabaret!

Lanky Kong

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Pick Up: Exidy Cabaret!

Yesterday I picked up this machine off CL for $250.

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Well, actually I sent my Toady, Tbbk, to pick it up for me as I was at work. I had to bribe him with a smoked/tinted plexi bezel, gas money, and an anti-wife-aggro donation so it was all fair. More pics are at the bottom.

Really, the cab is in great shape. The control panel is almost immaculate. It does have some very slight damage to the edges of the bottom of the cab. The coindoor needs to be sanded and repainted. It's missing the backdoor and some of the coin mechs, which do still work. Specifically, it is missing part of the coin return mechs if anyone has them for sale.

The game plays but there is no sound. I did notice that one of the wire harness's edge connector plugs was hanging loose inside the machine. Then I saw that a smaller board (audio board?) on top of the PCB had an empty edge connector to which the aforementioned plug obviously belonged. I plugged the smaller board in, plugged the machine in, and verified no smoke. Still there was no sound and I then noticed the speaker was not hooked up. I'll look at that later.

The PCB appears to have an extra empty (not hooked up) edge connector. The PCB is already hooked up to the harness on the one side and plays well but on the side of the PCB facing the back of the cab there's just an empty edge connector sitting there. What's this go to? Am I missing a component? Sorry, I'll try to get some pics of the inside of the machine taken & posted later tonight.

The monitor needs to be recapped as it's a little fuzzy and kind of dim. The lower Marquee does light up but it goes off & on at unidentifiable times/intervals. Is this intended? Or, should it be on the whole time?

Now one thing I really found strange, there's a hole drilled at the bottom of each side by the back bottom corners. Both holes look like they measure out to be at the exact same spot on each of the two side panels. Could this have been done at the factory accidentally? Like both panels were laying on top of each other and then "Whoops! Crap I just drilled through these two panels! Ahh! They'll be fine!" I just can't see why there would be a hole at the same spot on each side; specifically, at that spot! What's down there to support?

Anyway, that's my newest find! Here's some more pics:

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The basic Targ boardset was used for multiple Exidy games around that time period, the extra edge connector is probably for other games or possibly for a test fixture.
 
Can you take pictures of these parts of the cabinet for me?

1) Back door (Mine's missing)

2) Metal bracket at top edge of cabinet (missing)

3) The portion where the top of the CP connects to the inside of the cabinet. (also missing)

I got one that was converted and its totally beat to shit. Of course I ended up paying almost the same amount that you did, even though it is missing most of the hardware and the monitor.

I want to vectorize the cabinet so I can make a repro(s) on my CNC router. However, I can't do that without pics of a couple of the missing pieces. I posted in Todd Tuckey's Exidy cabaret thread with the same requests and he never replied. I hope you can help me out.
 
I know for sure Lanky Kong is also missing his backdoor as well.
 
Can you take pictures of these parts of the cabinet for me?

1) Back door (Mine's missing)

2) Metal bracket at top edge of cabinet (missing)

3) The portion where the top of the CP connects to the inside of the cabinet. (also missing)

I got one that was converted and its totally beat to shit. Of course I ended up paying almost the same amount that you did, even though it is missing most of the hardware and the monitor.

I want to vectorize the cabinet so I can make a repro(s) on my CNC router. However, I can't do that without pics of a couple of the missing pieces. I posted in Todd Tuckey's Exidy cabaret thread with the same requests and he never replied. I hope you can help me out.

Well...

1) I don't have a back door either. I mentioned this in the body of the first post...

2) I can probably get you a pic of this as I intend to have it powdercoated most likely.

3) I believe mine has this so I can probably at some point grab a pic.

I probably could've beat the guy down on his asking price of $250 but I work about 1 1/2 hours from where he was and I have a really good job...I can't just up & leave for an extending period of time. I knew someone would jump on it so I had to eat the asking price.

If I'd be off this would've happened guaranteed:

1) Call him
2) Head out there
3) Offer $150 cash ~ take machine
4) If he refused, offer $200 cash and take machine.

Anyway...I'm happy. Up to 3 Mini's with a 4th coming probably this next weekend.
 
MtZRcade will be in here shortly to let you know that this is a converted Taito cabaret, and that he has a better collection than you do. ;)

(Nice game!)
 
MtZRcade will be in here shortly to let you know that this is a converted Taito cabaret, and that he has a better collection than you do. ;)

(Nice game!)

Converted Taito my ass. I looked this machine over personally before paying the seller and it doesn't have so much as a stray screw hole inside of it.

I had to deal with the same kind of stuff back when I dug up a dedicated Do! Run Run.

"They don't exist."

"Yes they do it is in my living room."

"That is a converted GURP."

"No it isn't, GURP is made of particle, this is plywood and none of the dimensions match."

Etc, etc, etc.
 
MtZRcade will be in here shortly to let you know that this is a converted Taito cabaret, and that he has a better collection than you do. ;)

(Nice game!)

Well... It's not and I am sure he does. However, considering that I only started collecting back at the end of March just before the Super Auction nearby, which is just over 2 months ago, I think my collection is quite nice.

It includes:

1) Ms. Pac Cabaret
2) Centipede Cabaret
3) Great 1000 Mile Rally
4) Dedicated Ghosts n' Goblins
5) Mario Widebody
6) Altered Beast (in Robotron cab)
7) Radikal Bikers
8) After Burner
9) Golden Tee 2005 Fore Edition
10) Moon Base Cocktail
11) Dedicated Single Monitor PC-10
12) Double Donkey Kong in DK Jr cab
13) Almost minty Dig Dug for $125 (working too :D)
14) Single Monitor PC-10 in DK cab (Thanks John Rainbo)
15) Trak 10 (only purchase I regret)
16) Targ Cabaret
17) Black Tiger in Defender cab (as of today lol)

and next will be:

18) DK Cabaret

I believe that is close to the exact order of my purchases as well. 4 thru 9 are all from a Super Auction. All work except #5, #11, and #15. Five will be working once we get the monitor issue resolved.
 
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Converted Taito my ass. I looked this machine over personally before paying the seller and it doesn't have so much as a stray screw hole inside of it.

I had to deal with the same kind of stuff back when I dug up a dedicated Do! Run Run.

"They don't exist."

"Yes they do it is in my living room."

"That is a converted GURP."

"No it isn't, GURP is made of particle, this is plywood and none of the dimensions match."

Etc, etc, etc.
 
MtZRcade will be in here shortly to let you know that this is a converted Taito cabaret, and that he has a better collection than you do. ;)

(Nice game!)

Pookashit, i am here, and i do have a better collection than you, come see me sometime, i extended that offer last time, but you never replied. You must have had to much dick in your mouth.

Lanky, Nice find and if your interested in selling or trading, i will be about 10 miles from you on wednesday. And ill pay you more than you paid for it. And i have more games available for trade than pookashit has ever owned
 
Pookashit, i am here, and i do have a better collection than you, come see me sometime, i extended that offer last time, but you never replied. You must have had to much dick in your mouth.

Lanky, Nice find and if your interested in selling or trading, i will be about 10 miles from you on wednesday. And ill pay you more than you paid for it. And i have more games available for trade than pookashit has ever owned

You are the coolest person who ever lived. Not because of your collection, but because of this amazing post!

BTW, you should check your cabaret collection again. Based on your, ehem, brilliant I.D. skills, I'm guessing a few of them could actually be mini-fridges...:cool:
 
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