Is this homemade or a conversion?

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Anybody recognize this cabinet? I'm leaning toward homemade, but it does have a coin slot on it.

I've seen some very obscure, very boxy cocktail cabs before, and I'm thinking this may have started life as one of those, like a bootleg Space Invaders, or maybe something from the Pong era...

Any guesses on this one?

Kyle :cool:
 

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It's a box. About the easiest thing to create. I'd venture to guess that is a hombrew right there... but again, that's a guess.
 
I think it was made by hand, but back in the 80's because they went through the trouble to put the poker/trivia art on the top of it. Some op probably bought a kit, then built his own cabinet to put the kit in it.

If someone had built it recently they would have put Pac-Man art on it, 100%
 
It was a Williams cocktail in a former life judging by the coin door. Kill it with fire.
I second this since that looks exactly like a Williams door, including the two small, white backlit buttons (painted over). The top has been modified to eliminate the overhand and the CPs modified to stick out from the cabinet, but the Williams base is still there. Oh, the sides were also cut flat, since Defender, Stargate, Robotron, Make Trax (Not sure about Bubbles or Moon Patrol cocktails) cocktails all had sides that extended out to meet the end of the CP. There should be a speaker grill showing on the coin door side of the game, at least if it was originally a Stargate (not sure about the other CTs).

Scott C.
 
It doesn't matter because he didn't have to destroy any games for it. Props to the guy for making it what's the difference but why the hell is he trying to sell it? No one will buy that.
 
It seems almost everyone wants to use diamond plate to make their game look like a toolbox. Why not just convert a toolbox into a table game?
 
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