End of year / new year cabaret pickups

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Been a while since I did an update on the cabaret situation.

We'll start with the latest, Ms. Pac-Man. I've had a project Pac cabaret for a while, but it's waterlogged and I haven't gotten to it — I also don't have the space for the proper tools. So when a fellow SMAC member put this up for sale, I jumped on it. I wasn't the first to ask, but I was the first to commit. One 300 mile round trip to Tacoma, WA later, Ms. Pac was mine.

She's in nice shape with a new overlay and one of the crispest G07s I've ever seen. I had a very clean Pac PCB with Mike Doyle's 96-in-1 kit installed, so I dropped that in, and I'm keeping the other as a spare. She's looking good next to her long-lost sibling, my Galaga cabaret in a factory converted Ms. Pac cabinet.

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Next up, a Capcom Mini Cute which I snagged from PAC/KLOVer Dogyuun:

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This is my first candy cab, and it's pretty neat. I dropped a spare MVS-1 board with 120-in-1 cart into it, since the CP was already wired for four buttons. I still need to get stereo off the MVS motherboard, but it's working just fine as it is. This is a really awesome little cabinet, and it's been a big hit with both the kids and the adults.

And lastly…

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Dig Dug!

As the story goes, this machine was in Atari's engineering labs, and an employee took it with them when they quit, with the intention of converting it to a Centipede. Instead, it languished in a closet for close to three decades, before being sold to a fellow PAC member. It took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to pass it along to me.

So what we have here is a near-mint, never commercially operated Dig Dug cabaret. There are 149 clicks on the coin counter. The G07 doesn't have a lick of burn. The cabinet and T-molding are exquisite. It is unbelievably nice.

The downside is that it did not leave Atari with any artwork. The marquee is an adhesive repro over a bit of plexi. It came with a wrong-sized smoked front glass and no bezel, so I put on a repro bezel and I had some clear plexi cut to go over it. I'm talking to TOG about getting proper screened art printed up, and it came with a new repro CPO which I still need to install.
 

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The ol' Dig Dug looks good with the cardboard bezel and new glass installed. When are you going to take the leap and install the CPO?
 
So what we have here is a near-mint, never commercially operated Dig Dug cabaret.

Awesome!

Does it have a serial number on the back? My Food Fight cocktail was also supposedly Atari-employee owned, and didn't come with one.
 
I've got a new old stock dig dug cabaret bezel and the repro silkscreened dig dug cpo that was done a few years ago..I'm still searching for a nice cab to come along but nothing close by yet...good luck..that looks like a nice one to bring back to its former glory.
 
Been a while since I did an update on the cabaret situation.

We'll start with the latest, Ms. Pac-Man. I've had a project Pac cabaret for a while, but it's waterlogged and I haven't gotten to it — I also don't have the space for the proper tools. So when a fellow SMAC member put this up for sale, I jumped on it. I wasn't the first to ask, but I was the first to commit. One 300 mile round trip to Tacoma, WA later, Ms. Pac was mine.

She's in nice shape with a new overlay and one of the crispest G07s I've ever seen. I had a very clean Pac PCB with Mike Doyle's 96-in-1 kit installed, so I dropped that in, and I'm keeping the other as a spare. She's looking good next to her long-lost sibling, my Galaga cabaret in a factory converted Ms. Pac cabinet.

attachment.php


Next up, a Capcom Mini Cute which I snagged from PAC/KLOVer Dogyuun:

attachment.php


This is my first candy cab, and it's pretty neat. I dropped a spare MVS-1 board with 120-in-1 cart into it, since the CP was already wired for four buttons. I still need to get stereo off the MVS motherboard, but it's working just fine as it is. This is a really awesome little cabinet, and it's been a big hit with both the kids and the adults.

And lastly…

attachment.php


attachment.php


Dig Dug!

As the story goes, this machine was in Atari's engineering labs, and an employee took it with them when they quit, with the intention of converting it to a Centipede. Instead, it languished in a closet for close to three decades, before being sold to a fellow PAC member. It took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to pass it along to me.

So what we have here is a near-mint, never commercially operated Dig Dug cabaret. There are 149 clicks on the coin counter. The G07 doesn't have a lick of burn. The cabinet and T-molding are exquisite. It is unbelievably nice.

The downside is that it did not leave Atari with any artwork. The marquee is an adhesive repro over a bit of plexi. It came with a wrong-sized smoked front glass and no bezel, so I put on a repro bezel and I had some clear plexi cut to go over it. I'm talking to TOG about getting proper screened art printed up, and it came with a new repro CPO which I still need to install.

With all due respect man, DO NOT put any art on that Dig Dug! That is how it left Atari with that great story behind it and you're going to put repro art on it and make it look like any other plain jane Dig Dug cabaret!? No dude. Please. No. I will buy it from you as-is and you can go buy a regular Dig Dug cabaret!
 
The ol' Dig Dug looks good with the cardboard bezel and new glass installed. When are you going to take the leap and install the CPO?

Probably sometime soon, but I have a vacation coming up and I've been having too much fun playing it to take it down while I repaint the CP white.

I've got a new old stock dig dug cabaret bezel and the repro silkscreened dig dug cpo that was done a few years ago..I'm still searching for a nice cab to come along but nothing close by yet...good luck..that looks like a nice one to bring back to its former glory.

Shoot me a PM if you'd like to sell.

nice looking minis you got there.

Thanks! I love my cabarets.

With all due respect man, DO NOT put any art on that Dig Dug! That is how it left Atari with that great story behind it and you're going to put repro art on it and make it look like any other plain jane Dig Dug cabaret!? No dude. Please. No. I will buy it from you as-is and you can go buy a regular Dig Dug cabaret!

Well, to be fair, I don't know how it left Atari or whether it ever had art or what. But no way am I leaving it how it was when it came out of that closet — no bezel, wrong front glass, no marquee. The only thing that isn't trivially reversible is the CPO, and it's just black paint.
 
Probably sometime soon, but I have a vacation coming up and I've been having too much fun playing it to take it down while I repaint the CP white.



Shoot me a PM if you'd like to sell.



Thanks! I love my cabarets.



Well, to be fair, I don't know how it left Atari or whether it ever had art or what. But no way am I leaving it how it was when it came out of that closet — no bezel, wrong front glass, no marquee. The only thing that isn't trivially reversible is the CPO, and it's just black paint.

Fair enough. As long as it's reversible. I still think it looks cool the way it is. Could be a prototype.
 
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