NEW Is this an Arkanoid cocktail table?

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I went to buy an empty cabinet (got a clean almost brand new Beach Head 2000 cabinet. I got it because you could almost still smell the fresh paint..) at this gentleman's warehouse (turns out he services machines in the area), and I asked him if he had any cocktail tables. He pointed to a sad looking thing in the corner and said $50. Monitor is not working but everything is inside. Will hopefully be testing the board soon (will be my first to test) but I'm told by a knowing friend it's Arkanoid. Upon closer inspection I noticed the blocks burnt into the monitor...

Would people agree? Arkanoid? I'll post more pictures once I clean it up. There seems to be water damage so.... who knows...
 

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yeah, it looks like stern. It looks like it says jump over the one button. I wonder what it was. But its a steal at $50. make it into a 60 in 1 and sell it for 10x what you paid.
 
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$50 is fine for that. I see $50 worth of spinners and coin door just in the picture, so you should have no problem recouping your money if you don't fix it up.
 
Real Arkanoid didn't have a cocktail mode, right? Might be an Arkanoid bootleg in there. I'd still say it's worth it if you have the time to clean it up.
 
Real Arkanoid didn't have a cocktail mode, right? Might be an Arkanoid bootleg in there. I'd still say it's worth it if you have the time to clean it up.

The arkanoid manual shows the pinout including dual controls. I don't have a board on hand, but I believe the switch that the manual calls normal - inverted is actually the cocktail dip.
 
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I think just the initial software release left it out, going by this flyer.
 

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There is a real Taito Arkanoid cocktail board. Same PCB, just different code ROMs and a matching microcontroller. They did not make it dipswitch selectable. Only bootleg boards have that.
 
Stern cocktail with "Jump" above the button... maybe it began life as an Amidar!

Kyle :cool:

Never seen one, but I found a pic:

cocktail-1.jpg
 
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