Mystery Cabinet

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I asked about this before, but no one could come up with an answer.

Does anyone know what cabinet this was originally?(see pics).

I attempted to install a joystick since the one it originally came with is long gone.

Unfortunately the joysticks I have, which are mostly from Wico and Xarcade, are too big making it impossible to close the control panel/monitor cover which opens up like the front hood of a car.

I unscrewed the monitor and slid it up as far as I could on it's supports, but cannot get any of the several joysticks I tried to work consistently because when everything is closed the joystick assembly bottom is still right up against the bottom of the monitor, which I think causes an open circuit somewhere.

I figure if I can find out what this cabinet was originally dedicated for, I might be able to determine the particulars of the original joystick.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 

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It may have been for a video poker machine, which would have only had buttons on the control panel. Are you certain the former joystick element was original to the cabinet?
 
It may have been for a video poker machine, which would have only had buttons on the control panel. Are you certain the former joystick element was original to the cabinet?

Nope. I'm not. But it definitely had a joystick.(It was a Galaga 3 game).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
Darren;
That looks similar, but not identical to the games from Thomas Automatics INC. They made Astro Combat (which that may be!), Oli Boo Choo (looks slightly different), and a game I had once called "Hang Ten" which was a 10 game multicade thing. They all had that weird control panel that folded over the monitor... mine was just one big piece of smoked plexi with the buttons mounted inside.

The joystick had a huge oversized knob on it. It had regular microswitches on the bottom, but they had a strange way of daisy chaining the grounds together... they took the 'n/c' blade from each switch, and ran the ground wire from there to the next switch's ground blade... making it so that the ground turned off when you activated the switch, so it made it work as a 4 way. I'd never seen anybody do that.

The game's long gone though, but it looks just like those TAI cabinets.
 
It might have been a generic cab based on some of the Thomas Automatics designs:

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Hmmm.....wish I could help you. I do know one thing about it........it's kinda ugly. :) Just stating the obvious.
 
I have a leaf red ball top joystick that came out of that exact cab.

I will send you a pm
 
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