Did Final Fight ever have a different cab?

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I think Final Fight came out in Japan before it came out in the US right? Did its Japanese cab look different? Was there like an "original" cabinet before the one we all knew? I mean other than having Japanese words on it, was the actual cab bezel or side art different on its initial run?
I know it was going to be a sequel to the first Street Fighter game, was there a cab design that reflects that?
 
Pretty sure Japan was all generic cabinets by the time Final Fight came out, and wasn't the dedicated Final Fight just the conversion kit installed on a certain (Dynamo??) cabinet?
 
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From what I've read over the years, by then the newly introduced JAMMA system was already in play. Stands for Japanese Amusement Machine Association as I'm sure you already knew. So they basically ran around this idea and they used mostly generic candy cabs and just about all games have come in kit forms since. Sega made Many over the years, but back then, I think capcom and Pony or a bunch of others I can't remember off the top of my head produced most of the "generic" cabs then like TBK said.

Operators would and still get kits and swap out a game into these "blank cabs". In a kit you would get:

1. the game marquee
2. PCB
3. maybe buttons
4. button cappers, or joys if needed, and a
5. CP marquee instead of bezels.

Marquee bezels were just strips that went along the CP marquee inserts. On them were brief instructions on how to play with maybe a bit of artwork. Japanese have always been a lot different then we were. The marquees were mostly magazine type looking advertizements with some also having some instructions on how to play the said game. That is one thing I thought we have always done better.

I don't think Japan used bezels or side art at all back then or even now. So the original FF kits in Japan only included PCB, marquee, CP marquee and a special pop up thing pictured below. The way the cabs are designed, once in a blue moon a cab will get side art. But those are those giant games like HOD, or TZ etc. Space has always been limited there so games never stood out alone really, they were always lined up close making side art useless. Some cabs got their own company logo on the side. ie: Sega Blast City.
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This thing is super rare to find. Many times a game might get these posted on or around the cab.
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A generic Japanese candy cab (BUT OF GREAT QUALITY!!!) as different games.
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Also BTW. Some games like SFII did get custom CP's. Not sure if they were official or not, but I have seen some.
 
Oh one more thing. I think you might be referring to the expo working title Capcom had at the time. When they were showing the game off in it's early stages. The game was originally call Street Fighter '89.

Here is the concept art.
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Interesting! Thanks Challenger.
So would it be fair to say the FF bezel we know of was only made when the game came to the US?

The crux of my argument here is going back to the old rumor that Poison was a transvestite. I notice her appearance in the bottom right of the bezel looks rather "manly", much more so than she looks in the game graphics, and we were wondering if they had decided to change "her" original sex by the time they made the bezel. If the original arcade cabinet release in Japan (when she was still a "she") was lacking any bezel at all, then it would seem to confirm my suspicions. Poison became a transvestite only when the game came to the US.

And yes, I have watched that recent 20 minute video going into the whole Poison story.
 
Love the detail on CHALLENGER's Sega Blast City, Final Fight, and Japanese arcade info! It's too bad that these cabinets are very tough to find in Colorado. I know a seller in Utah that specializes in candy cabs, but shipping is shipping.

I really- REALLY want a couple of those sit down stools. Great for adjustable cocktails too!

P.S. I want to visit Japan.
 
I guess we will never know for sure if she was a transvestite or not. Honestly I don't think she ever was. It's such a random thing to have in the game, plus they never really tried to keep hinting at it. I think the whole Censor Entertainment System threw Capcom through a loop and they made up the story. Yet everyone seemed to forget the intro to DD1 where not only does Billy's girl get punched in the gut, but there is an upskirt shot as well. :rolleyes:

Poison or Roxy does look like a dude on the bezel, but then again Capcom like many Japanese companies went through so many different artists here in the states who had gotten vague details on what the characters were to look like. Some of the art is like WTF? Who is that person? Or why does Mega Man look like Tom Arnold and Haggar looks like Tom Selleck? Look at Belger on the SNES box. Honestly....I'm not even sure who that is really.
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Ryu always looked Filipino or Mexican lol
and Sagat looked like a drunk version of Mr. Clean.
 
The tranny angle with poison is a more recent thing and started as a partial trolling of the fanbase, which blew up. Even if she was originally meant to be a transvestite, they didn't add anything to the original to suggest it.

Edit: that final fight stand with the sd haggar and cody is tight! Are those hard to find?
 
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The tranny angle with poison is a more recent thing and started as a partial trolling of the fanbase, which blew up. Even if she was originally meant to be a transvestite, they didn't add anything to the original to suggest it.

Edit: that final fight stand with the sd haggar and cody is tight! Are those hard to find?

Yeah, I never knew they existed until a member off another site claimed he got one and posted that pic. Thing with Japan, is that they prolly have lots of them stuffed my many places around that country in someone's closet. Operators would distribute everything from posters, and all the original artwork along with the PCB when they sell them at the Arcade game shops in Akihabra when they are done with them. Who knows what type of SFII or Capcom goodies you were able to get your hands on at around 1994-98 time frame.

Now when I was last there. You were able to still get promos, posters etc from games of maybe 1998 +. I got myself a Tekken 3, 4, and 5 poster. Every game I had ever gotten at the PCB shop in Japan came with all of the artwork and things that were included in the original kit inventory. Some folks have even got super lucky and were able to get the original pcb box with the operators address on it and everything. My SFII had a mail in card so you could get updates and whatnot.
 
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