Gravitar cabaret?

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I randomly found this Gravitar promotional video. They mention "A new streamlined cabaret, contemporary and compact" for Gravitar in the video. It also mentions that it uses a 19 inch monitor. There is a picture of the cabinet too, which is awesome. I wish the video quality was better so I could get a good look at the shape and artwork.

Has anybody else ever seen this? I am guessing that nobody has this cabinet, but you never know. It is probably sitting in somebody's garage, converted into an Arkanoid. :)

 
When he started talking about the full-size cabinet, they scrolled into a nice shot of the sideart. So when he started talking about the cabaret I was all excited for a closeup of the artwork too, but no dice. Still, it is an amazing thing to see. It is not every day I stumble onto an Atari cabinet that I have never seen before.
 
I've done a lot of research on this, and all points have led me to conclude that the Gravitar cabaret was only a concept and was never actually produced.

And I agree, I'd be crazy to find one if they had!
 
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Why oh why did you have to show me that? Now I am totally obsessed with getting one, and know that it's impossible! UGH!!

That just looks so damn sweet, the bezel is just bad ass. And I'd be willing to bet that the early gravitar could possibly have a amplifone in it as some of the early ones did.

Is this the one that the Atari employee owns or ?
 
Just to spice things up, there was a Black Widow version too ;-)

Do you own the BW also?

I was going to suggest that some ambitious collector should build a replica, but that cabinet looks unique, right? Obviously, the artwork stuff is.
 
Do you own the BW also?

I was going to suggest that some ambitious collector should build a replica, but that cabinet looks unique, right? Obviously, the artwork stuff is.


Hey, yeah I own the Black Widow also :) There were two but one was lost in a fire unfortunately. I have some pix of that somewhere. I'll dig them out.
 
Hey, yeah I own the Black Widow also :) There were two but one was lost in a fire unfortunately. I have some pix of that somewhere. I'll dig them out.

Well, there's the motive..now you have the only one. Where were you when the fire happened?

j/k
 
Bet we can color Todd Tuckey jealous :p

It's neat and all, but just like Todd's Irish "cabarets," I fail to see how these qualify as such. They shaved the marquee area down or off and somehow this qualifies it as a "mini?" How? It's 3" shorter? Har. I mean, here this Gravitar sits, next to a Space Invaders, and it looks almost exactly the same height - taller even.

More of "alternates" than "cabarets" in my book. But certainly unique.
 
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Maybe I am missing something from this discussion, but the picture in the first post looks like a true cabaret cabinet (like a tempest cabaret), whereas the wonderfull example shown in the other pictures just looks like an Irish cabinet (like an Irish Dig Dug for example).

It is not being implied that the two are one and the same is it??

I would like to see a picture, verification of a true Gravitar cabaret as in the picture in the first post.

Either way, beutifull machine you have there! :)
 
Maybe I am missing something from this discussion, but the picture in the first post looks like a true cabaret cabinet (like a tempest cabaret), whereas the wonderfull example shown in the other pictures just looks like an Irish cabinet (like an Irish Dig Dug for example).

It is not being implied that the two are one and the same is it??

I would like to see a picture, verification of a true Gravitar cabaret as in the picture in the first post.

Either way, beutifull machine you have there! :)

I think this^^^^^ but it could be a different cabaret too.

G12
 
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