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Wanted to put this together mostly for my own benefit. Feel free to chime in with more info or corrections as I doubt I got all this right. I also don't have the benefit of having dimensions for all of these. Most of this info is on klov in various different threads if you search hard enough, but I figured it would be a resource if we finally get it all into one thread.
From my count, I get ten different kinds of Big Blues, as well as two "deluxe" setups. I'll try to match them with the appropriate games.
First Edition
Games Most Appropriate For: Street Fighter II CE
Comments: This is the original pre-Q sound big blue that is usually associated with the "dedicated" Champion Edition (along with the 3-koam z-back). Visually almost identical to the Captain Commando version except for the different coin door types and small differences in the control panel size and speaker panel size. The Punisher used the same style cabinet except it was all black instead of blue, and had the most extensive side art of any big blue, and is one of the few with a dedicated control panel overlay (like CE, SSF2, & C.Commando)
Games Most Appropriate For: Captain Commando
Comments: You can see the slight differences from the first Big Blue. There is side art for CC that is missing from this pic
**PRETEND THIS IMAGE IS EMBEDDED: http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/118124215497.jpg **
Games Most Appropriate For: The Punisher
Comments: Dedicated Punisher cabinet. Black vinyl instead of blue. Most extensive use of side art seen on big blues, and only game along with Cap Commando and SF2CE to sport a dedicated control panel overlay. Need to compare control panels of the 3 cabinets to see what differences there are, as sizes appear to be slightly dissimilar.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8a29f95ff656265f993295cd37eb627b
Games Most Appropriate For: Knights of the Round (King of Dragons, Warriors of Fate)
Comments: Same as Captain Commando except for 3-slot coin door instead of four. Dedicated Knights of the Round according to serial tag. Unknown if Big Blue-sized marquees exist for the other two titles.
Q-Sound Cabinets
Games Most Appropriate For: X-Men: Cota, MSH, XvSF, Street Fighter Alpha 1-2, Darkstalkers, Night Warriors, Star Gladiator
Comments: There are 6 different Q-sound cabinets. They are differentiated by the size of the marquees, size of the control panels, and whether the marquee is "attached" or "detached". This first variation is attached marquee, normal-sized control panel.
Games Most Appropriate For: Alien vs. Predator, Slam Masters, D&D: SoM, D&D: ToD
Comments: As you can see, it's the same as above except the control panel sticks out further from the cabinet to accommodate 3 (or 4) players. Don't let the pic fool you - the marquee is just as large as the cabinet above.
Games Most Appropriate For: MSHvSF, MvC 1-2, SFA3, Vampire Savior, SF: The Movie, Red Earth, Street Fighter EX, EX 2, EX 2 Plus Alpha
Comments: Detached marquee is the "short" version, normal-sized control panel. Basically this is for all the cps2 fighters that didn't have the oversized marquees.
Games Most Appropriate For: Alien vs. Predator
Comments: Same as above except control panel is the wide version, and the detached marquee is barely separated from the cabinet. I'm not sure if that was adjustable or if it's a different type altogether. Small-marquee variant of Alien vs. Predator, seems to have come from the factory.
Games Most Appropriate For: Saturday Night Slam Masters (4p), D&D Tower of Doom, Shadow over Mystara
Comments: Tall detached marquee box, wide control panel. I've never seen a big Slam Masters marquee like this (just normal size or super big) but I assume the one in the picture isn't homemade.
Games Most Appropriate For: Super Street Fighter II, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Slam Masters (2p)
Comments: Tall detached marquee box, normal-sized control panel. Basically the 2-player version of the cabinet above. You can see this cabinet in the flyers for SSF2 and SSF2 Turbo.
Deluxe Versions
Slam Masters dual setup: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/capcom/10024801.jpg
Comments: This is two detached marquee, normal-sized control panel cabinets joined together by a large base and oversized-marquee box, with a graphic/instructions piece in the center. No known intact ecamples currently exist.
Super Street Fighter II: New Challengers Tournament setup: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1148&image=2
Comments: Four detached short marquee, normal-sized control panel cabinets with a larger marquee sticking out of the top of the middle two short marquees (versus the Slam Masters cabinet which did not use individual marquee boxes). Unknown whether the cabinets are held together by anything or were free-standing with link cables (assuming the latter).
From my count, I get ten different kinds of Big Blues, as well as two "deluxe" setups. I'll try to match them with the appropriate games.
First Edition
Games Most Appropriate For: Street Fighter II CE
Comments: This is the original pre-Q sound big blue that is usually associated with the "dedicated" Champion Edition (along with the 3-koam z-back). Visually almost identical to the Captain Commando version except for the different coin door types and small differences in the control panel size and speaker panel size. The Punisher used the same style cabinet except it was all black instead of blue, and had the most extensive side art of any big blue, and is one of the few with a dedicated control panel overlay (like CE, SSF2, & C.Commando)
Games Most Appropriate For: Captain Commando
Comments: You can see the slight differences from the first Big Blue. There is side art for CC that is missing from this pic
**PRETEND THIS IMAGE IS EMBEDDED: http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/118124215497.jpg **
Games Most Appropriate For: The Punisher
Comments: Dedicated Punisher cabinet. Black vinyl instead of blue. Most extensive use of side art seen on big blues, and only game along with Cap Commando and SF2CE to sport a dedicated control panel overlay. Need to compare control panels of the 3 cabinets to see what differences there are, as sizes appear to be slightly dissimilar.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8a29f95ff656265f993295cd37eb627b
Games Most Appropriate For: Knights of the Round (King of Dragons, Warriors of Fate)
Comments: Same as Captain Commando except for 3-slot coin door instead of four. Dedicated Knights of the Round according to serial tag. Unknown if Big Blue-sized marquees exist for the other two titles.
Q-Sound Cabinets
Games Most Appropriate For: X-Men: Cota, MSH, XvSF, Street Fighter Alpha 1-2, Darkstalkers, Night Warriors, Star Gladiator
Comments: There are 6 different Q-sound cabinets. They are differentiated by the size of the marquees, size of the control panels, and whether the marquee is "attached" or "detached". This first variation is attached marquee, normal-sized control panel.
Games Most Appropriate For: Alien vs. Predator, Slam Masters, D&D: SoM, D&D: ToD
Comments: As you can see, it's the same as above except the control panel sticks out further from the cabinet to accommodate 3 (or 4) players. Don't let the pic fool you - the marquee is just as large as the cabinet above.
Games Most Appropriate For: MSHvSF, MvC 1-2, SFA3, Vampire Savior, SF: The Movie, Red Earth, Street Fighter EX, EX 2, EX 2 Plus Alpha
Comments: Detached marquee is the "short" version, normal-sized control panel. Basically this is for all the cps2 fighters that didn't have the oversized marquees.
Games Most Appropriate For: Alien vs. Predator
Comments: Same as above except control panel is the wide version, and the detached marquee is barely separated from the cabinet. I'm not sure if that was adjustable or if it's a different type altogether. Small-marquee variant of Alien vs. Predator, seems to have come from the factory.
Games Most Appropriate For: Saturday Night Slam Masters (4p), D&D Tower of Doom, Shadow over Mystara
Comments: Tall detached marquee box, wide control panel. I've never seen a big Slam Masters marquee like this (just normal size or super big) but I assume the one in the picture isn't homemade.
Games Most Appropriate For: Super Street Fighter II, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Slam Masters (2p)
Comments: Tall detached marquee box, normal-sized control panel. Basically the 2-player version of the cabinet above. You can see this cabinet in the flyers for SSF2 and SSF2 Turbo.
Deluxe Versions
Slam Masters dual setup: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/capcom/10024801.jpg
Comments: This is two detached marquee, normal-sized control panel cabinets joined together by a large base and oversized-marquee box, with a graphic/instructions piece in the center. No known intact ecamples currently exist.
Super Street Fighter II: New Challengers Tournament setup: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1148&image=2
Comments: Four detached short marquee, normal-sized control panel cabinets with a larger marquee sticking out of the top of the middle two short marquees (versus the Slam Masters cabinet which did not use individual marquee boxes). Unknown whether the cabinets are held together by anything or were free-standing with link cables (assuming the latter).