Joust in Robotron cabinet?

Arthur Dent

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Anyone ever seen a Joust in a Robotron cabinet from the factory? I just bought a Joust at auction a few weeks ago and I am relatively new to this so I didn't question the cabinet since it looks its age meaning the paintjob looks like it is really old with tons of small nicks, dings, and scratches from years of use and the monitor has massive Joust screen burn. I had just gotten a Rastan a few weeks before that had the cab painted solid black. The guy told me it was a Joust cabinet. I started messing with them yesterday and noticed the cabs were different and started trying to figure out why when I noticed the Robotron cabinet picture and how it looks just like the cab my Joust is in. So I thought that maybe they used some Robotron cabs during production but have not found anything to support that theory.

Am I missing something?
 
Yep.. i own one, and Jpopson that lives near me has one too.
 
I think that Phet's Joust is a Robotron style cab too. He has a restore thread on it, I'm just too lazy to look for it at the moment...
 
This was quite common. If they had orders for Jousts and no Joust cabs ready, they would repaint a Robotron cab and vice versa. I have a Robotron cabinet with operator black paint on the sides and when I tried to remove it, I found Stargate paint under it. THey must have run out of Stargate cabs and just grabbed a Robotron cab.

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I have a Robotron in a Bubbles style cabinet. When I stripped the grey paint, there was bubbles blue paint underneath, but no bubbles or splat (which also used the same style cabinet) stencils, just blue paint.
 
I just bought a Joust on ebay, here it is with my Robotron, and joust in a robotron repaint. I should have got my other joust out of the den and lined it up too lol

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I don't really care for the Robotron style cab.
The kick panel is set too far back for my taste.
 
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