Drogulus
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Hey guys, long time member who rarely posts here. I am wondering if we can get a discussion going on the history of arcade cabinets in North America. I am 30 so as an adult, by the time I started collecting the arcade era was almost dead. My question as far as my own teen years is where did cabinets come from in the 90s? If you ordered say a Street Fighter or a Mortal Kombat machine, where were you ordering them from and from who? I would really love a set of matching cabinets for my Street Fighter games but ordering from Japan is far too expensive and there only seem to be a few people in the states still making cabinets and they are also very expensive.
Even in Japan it seems that dedicated cabinets with side art and marquees barely exist and most games there are but into mass produced cabinets that are far too expensive to import to North America. I guess that I would be really interested to know where these games that I now collect as an adult actually came from and what the prices were like. If anyone has any knowledge of cabinet history I would love to hear about it.
Even in Japan it seems that dedicated cabinets with side art and marquees barely exist and most games there are but into mass produced cabinets that are far too expensive to import to North America. I guess that I would be really interested to know where these games that I now collect as an adult actually came from and what the prices were like. If anyone has any knowledge of cabinet history I would love to hear about it.