Favorite conversion titles..

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Today I think most of us cringe when we find an original defender converted to a poker game but there are some conversions that I thought that played (and rarely) looked ok. Off the top of my head:

Arkanoid: I seemed to find this often in Atari cabs. I thought if done well side art exempted it could look ok.

Mr do: probably the most famous conversion pcb. However I rarely saw the cabs looking good. Plus it doesn't help that original universal cabs (to my minds eye) are some of the best looking ever made.

Raiden: (and its sequels)..I just loved this game. But I've seen it stuck in anything.

Ms pac: I remember seeing pac mans with ms pac marquees and pcbs. A bad combo.

Street Fighter champion edition. I love the original street fighter cabs. But I also used to find street fighters stuck in anything.

Capcom bowling: maybe the most infamous conversion. I've seen more classic cabs with capcom bowling than perhaps anything else. I almost want to own one for this reason alone.


I could start a whole nother thread about cabs that NEVER should have been converted. (Gorf, Tron, Tempest, pole position.)
 
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Ms pac: I remember seeing pac mans with ms pac marquees and pcbs. A bad combo.

Actually I find the art on Pac to be superior, but the gameplay of Ms Pac is better so I'd love to have that setup in the arcade eventually.

Quoting myself on this because I'm wondering if my karmic foo caused the game above to fall in my lap as I scored a very nice but cheap "restored" Pacman cab stealthly running a 60in1 (unhacked cp) just days after making the comment above :D. Kinda funny how that worked out :).
 
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Actually I find the art on Pac to be superior, but the gameplay of Ms Pac is better so I'd love to have that setup in the arcade eventually.

I used to think the art on Pac was better than Ms. Pac. I later changed my view because the art on Pac is nothing like what Namco designed/envisioned for him. Midway completely did their own art design and it is totally inconsistent with the rest of the series.

As for the topic, I really like Super Dodgeball for conversion games. Have a kit I'm waiting to stumble upon the right cab for.
 
I know it'll be blasphemy to most, but given it was my first exposure to the game, the Major Havoc conversion from Tempest will always hold sway over me. I've never even seen a dedicated MH, sadly.
 
I know it'll be blasphemy to most, but given it was my first exposure to the game, the Major Havoc conversion from Tempest will always hold sway over me. I've never even seen a dedicated MH, sadly.

It's not blasphemy as Tempest sucks and MH is one of the best games ever :cool:.

*zips up flame suit ;)
 
I find converted Williams cabs constantly. My final lap 3 is a moon patrol. My robojoust is arch rivals and my joust is yie ar kung fu.

The sad thing is I really want to make my robojoust robotron but I don't have the heart.
 
Actually I find the art on Pac to be superior, but the gameplay of Ms Pac is better so I'd love to have that setup in the arcade eventually.



I'd also like to have a Tron -> Two Tigers conversion with the full side-art and everything. That's one of the best conversions of all time IMO.

I wouldn't mind a Rush N Attack in a Joust cab if one turns up. A lot of jamma games look good in a Joust cab IMO.

I just can't destroy trons and gorfs. Though I actually think I've seen the two tigers conversion you are talking about.

I think I've realized I'm pretty much a pre jamma guy.
 
I'd also like to have a Tron -> Two Tigers conversion with the full side-art and everything. That's one of the best conversions of all time IMO.

I don't know about best. I got one of those in order to deconvert it. The upshot was that the Two Tigers artwork almost perfectly preserved the Tron side art.



I have always liked the Mr. Do games. Do Run Run is my favorite. I enjoy Capcom Bowling. I found that Need for Speed Underground was much more fun than GT despite the fact that GT had a Rush (one of my favorite bands) song in it. I have a Klax and I like it a lot. Its a fun puzzle game that is a nice break from Tetris or similar. Oh and I do like Columns also. I had a blast with Raiden 2 until my PCB went tits up and then I converted the cabinet to a 60-in-1 out of spite. One more, Target Terror Gold is cooler than the first one.
 

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I think the Cloak & Dagger conversion for a Defender cab looks good.

no, no it does not. but then again, for whatever reason, i dislike all Defender conversions. Joust/MP/Robotron style cabs though i think usually look pretty good converted.

i do, however, like C&D quite a bit and probably wouldn't pass up a chance at one at a reasonable price, despite it looking like crap.
 
Final Fight. Probably the best 2 player beat em up out there.
Golden Axe, Final Fight with swords, although it plays a bit slower.
Bubble Bobble.
City Connection and Penguin Kun Wars. Been tracking these since 2001 and not once has a full kit or a machine with a full kit surfaced.
Magical Tetris with Micky Mouse. Simply superior to Atari Tetris in every way possible, even if it is in Japanese. While not as available as it used to be, this import board still barely cracks $100 and makes women excited in a way that the other Tetris versions never will.
Pole Position 2. Hey, choose from 4 different tracks, otherwise exactly the same as far as I can tell, I have no idea why the two boardsets have so many differences.
Do Run Run is awesome, however its status as a conversion game is disputed as 2-3 dedicated one's have surfaced since I was in the hobby, with the one I used to own probably being the best example.
 
I forgot about golden axe. One of the past titles I used to play in the wild at a 7/11 in college. I think maybe dedicated cabs were made but I always found it jammed into say a Robocop cab.
 
I used to think the art on Pac was better than Ms. Pac. I later changed my view because the art on Pac is nothing like what Namco designed/envisioned for him. Midway completely did their own art design and it is totally inconsistent with the rest of the series.

As for the topic, I really like Super Dodgeball for conversion games. Have a kit I'm waiting to stumble upon the right cab for.

I agree with the Super Dodgeball, I'm in the middle of building one now. I've got everything to finish it but time. Maybe this weekend will be the final push on it.
 
I like Klax. I know it looks weird as hell with Arabian artwork but what the hell. Massive Arabian burn on the G07 tube but has a great picture. I can't bring myself to do anything with this cabinet but just enjoy playing Klax.
 

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My answer to these threads is always Rush N' Attack.

Played through Rough Ranger finally after owning it for months this morning and it was fun (money muncher continue game, though, unlike Rush N' Attack) but the final and only boss fight was stupid hard to where I probably spent 30+ credits on it and eventually had to add another player so I could get through it.

Rough Ranger is a rip-off of Rolling Thunder to a T, but I admire the 2-player simultaneous aspect of it and can't wait to try that out either. Love games like that, even if you can beat them every time in the free play environment due to continues.

Here's my conversion row next to Space Invaders, conversions rock and a ton of people have a deconverted Joust nowadays once again but not so much a nice original Rush N' Attack very-well-done conversion, perfectly happy with not decoverting them, absolutely (Two Jousts, one Moon Patrol):

(Somebody here sold the very very very expensive game PCB out of the Life Force cabinet so it's indefinitely running Taito's Superman which is a fun game too)

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