Crazy early 80s multi board switcher cab?

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So I buy a lot of games site unseen over the phone for a very good price. Over the phone the guy tells me one of the games is Elevator Action but it is non working. I need another Taito cab so I think OK cool. When the lot shows up the EA is in a Sega frogger cab :( so I pay the guy , unload them and so on. After checking out the cabs I get to the EA , start to look it over and see Tempest spinners on the front and top, WTF? So I pull the back off and find this crazy early 5 board switcher set up! Plug it in and it comes right up. I turn the dial on the front and it switch's from Popeye to Swimmer to Elevator Acton to jungle king and then to Moon patrol. I have seen Jamma switchers but nothing like this.
 

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That has to be a unique specimen, or at least Ive never seen it before either. All boardsets working? If so I'd never let it go, way too cool to pass up.
 
Wow! That is cool!

I think you should document that setup and make a schematic/template the rest of us can use to make a multi-game wire harness similar to that.
 
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niceee

flippin awesome!
5 games one cab ALL working! sweeet
So I buy a lot of games site unseen over the phone for a very good price. Over the phone the guy tells me one of the games is Elevator Action but it is non working. I need another Taito cab so I think OK cool. When the lot shows up the EA is in a Sega frogger cab :( so I pay the guy , unload them and so on. After checking out the cabs I get to the EA , start to look it over and see Tempest spinners on the front and top, WTF? So I pull the back off and find this crazy early 5 board switcher set up! Plug it in and it comes right up. I turn the dial on the front and it switch's from Popeye to Swimmer to Elevator Acton to jungle king and then to Moon patrol. I have seen Jamma switchers but nothing like this.
 
So I buy a lot of games site unseen over the phone for a very good price. Over the phone the guy tells me one of the games is Elevator Action but it is non working. I need another Taito cab so I think OK cool. When the lot shows up the EA is in a Sega frogger cab :( so I pay the guy , unload them and so on. After checking out the cabs I get to the EA , start to look it over and see Tempest spinners on the front and top, WTF? So I pull the back off and find this crazy early 5 board switcher set up! Plug it in and it comes right up. I turn the dial on the front and it switch's from Popeye to Swimmer to Elevator Acton to jungle king and then to Moon patrol. I have seen Jamma switchers but nothing like this.

I actually like that setup. Someone was very meticulous and did a bang up job.
 
After looking at it I really think it is a kit. There is no crazy wire hacks and all the connections/connecters are damm near factory perfect. It had been in storage for a very very long time.
 
Wow! That is craziness. Going to keep it? If nothing else, you can pick what game you want to keep in it and sell the other boards and most likely pay for the game and then some. Are they all original PCB's and not hacks or bootlegs?
 
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