My free cabinet pickup - Gremlin/SEGA Slimline Astro Fighter
I picked up a free cabinet over the weekend -- a "slimline" style cocktail cabinet. Very small. Very cool. I was able to fold down the rear seats in my PT Cruiser and bring it home without problems. Even better - you can move it around yourself!
It's totally gutted inside, but overall in very decent physical shape. The previous owner had a mame'd it and therefore the control panel areas are trashed. Easy enough to redo those, though. He included the 15" LCD monitor he had installed for free, too. Very nice guy who was moving and didn't have room for it in his new place; wouldn't even take money for it all when I offered it -- he was just happy it was going to a good home.
Since I already have a mame cabinet, I'm not going to do another one. A friend suggested that I should put a multi-game board in it, and the more I read/look into those it makes a lot of sense. No internals remain on the cabinet, so I'd pretty much be starting from scratch on a restore (assuming I could even find controls/boards/monitor/etc.)
Interesting cabinet... never saw one in the wild before. Should be a fun winter project, however it turns out!
I picked up a free cabinet over the weekend -- a "slimline" style cocktail cabinet. Very small. Very cool. I was able to fold down the rear seats in my PT Cruiser and bring it home without problems. Even better - you can move it around yourself!
It's totally gutted inside, but overall in very decent physical shape. The previous owner had a mame'd it and therefore the control panel areas are trashed. Easy enough to redo those, though. He included the 15" LCD monitor he had installed for free, too. Very nice guy who was moving and didn't have room for it in his new place; wouldn't even take money for it all when I offered it -- he was just happy it was going to a good home.
Since I already have a mame cabinet, I'm not going to do another one. A friend suggested that I should put a multi-game board in it, and the more I read/look into those it makes a lot of sense. No internals remain on the cabinet, so I'd pretty much be starting from scratch on a restore (assuming I could even find controls/boards/monitor/etc.)
Interesting cabinet... never saw one in the wild before. Should be a fun winter project, however it turns out!
