I picked this thing up over the weekend at Captains Auction and it was just so friggin bizarre I thought I should share it.
The cabinet is a Tank II which is a black and white game that was at some point converted to play color games. The cab is missing the monitor, but it looks like a monitor was mounted in the front of the plexi with the wiring coming up through the first hole in the CP for the player 1 joystick and held on with 2 sided tape and duct tape (bizarre).
Anyhow, I'm working on a Tank II at the moment and wanted the back door for it as well as some of the internal parts like the coin door, transformer etc for a Steeplechase projects I've got going on.
When I opened up the back door it got even stranger, to my surprise theres a complete Defender board set and power supply inside instead of the Tank II PCBs. I guess at one point this was converted to Defender (beats me how you play that with Tank joysticks)?
Further, there is a second PCB wired into the Defender harness for a Sega game called Regulus, which appears to be a kit only game that I assume this was converted to after it was Defender.
Pretty fridge strange all around, but at $50 I had to buy it.
The cabinet is a Tank II which is a black and white game that was at some point converted to play color games. The cab is missing the monitor, but it looks like a monitor was mounted in the front of the plexi with the wiring coming up through the first hole in the CP for the player 1 joystick and held on with 2 sided tape and duct tape (bizarre).
Anyhow, I'm working on a Tank II at the moment and wanted the back door for it as well as some of the internal parts like the coin door, transformer etc for a Steeplechase projects I've got going on.
When I opened up the back door it got even stranger, to my surprise theres a complete Defender board set and power supply inside instead of the Tank II PCBs. I guess at one point this was converted to Defender (beats me how you play that with Tank joysticks)?
Further, there is a second PCB wired into the Defender harness for a Sega game called Regulus, which appears to be a kit only game that I assume this was converted to after it was Defender.
Pretty fridge strange all around, but at $50 I had to buy it.
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