Name that Atari Cabinet

Why are we assuming this is an Atari cab?

Yeh, at first glance it does not smell like Atari to me. Just doesn't have the right look for some reason ... snipped or not.
A different view perhaps ... an interior pic would be nice.

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This thread was doomed from the start due to the name the same controversy. :)

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Thanks, everyone. I am leaning towards Dig Dug with a modified cab.
 

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Yeh, at first glance it does not smell like Atari to me. Just doesn't have the right look for some reason ... snipped or not.
A different view perhaps ... an interior pic would be nice.



This thread was doomed from the start due to the name the same controversy. :)
Hopefully he doesn't change the title to delete
 
Yep! That Namco label on the back is the key. Dig Dug is it!

Scott C.
 

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Yeh, inside pics and rear-cabinet labels make the naming much easier. Though I would have liked to call it "BOB". :)
 
Crazy to me how some thought this wasn't an Atari cab. Regardless this can still be "salvaged" into a cheap pandora's box or FPGA emulation cabinet.
 
Not gonna lie, it did look kind of bulky like a Stern cab. Troxel just held back on the Atari stickers to mess with everyone 😆
 
If, in fact, it IS an Atari cabinet, then why the top curve modification in the first place? That's what I'd like to know.
 
If, in fact, it IS an Atari cabinet, then why the top curve modification in the first place? That's what I'd like to know.


That's what I don't get.

It isn't that easy to just cleanly chop a diagonal chunk off of the front of a cab. And do it cleanly on both sides.

Especially with the pic of the inside of the marquee area, that doesn't look modified to me. It looks pretty factory. The blocking, the black paint on the front of the top piece of particleboard (behind/under the top bracket). If that cab was cut, there would be evidence of the original top wood being glued to the side here:

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And someone would have had to remove the internal blocking under the red circle, cut that, and paint the end black? Seems unlikely.

I'd be interested to see equivalent pics of a Dig Dug, for comparison.

Are there any other Atari/Namco titles we aren't thinking of, that it could have been?
 
Perhaps the cabinet fell and was damaged, so that why the modified it. Seems farfetched, but possible. I have multiple cabinets from one particular operator that liked to replace the fronts of his cabinets. Not sure why, but it was done and with some definite skill.

For North America, there simply where not that many Atari/Namco games of this time period. Dig Dug, Xevious, Pole Position, Pole Position II, Rolling Thunder, Atari RBI Baseball, Pac-Mania, and Galaga 88. Did I miss any?

The cabinet doesn't match any Atari cabinets I am finding for Europe, but my search continues.

Scott C.
 
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