Name This Game (cardboard monitor bezel)

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Can anyone identify the game this cardboard monitor bezel came from? Sure, I could Google it, but I think it would be more fun to see who knows it (without the help of Google et al). And no, I haven't already Googled it, because what's the fun in that?

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I will say that the bezel is part of a cab that I'm currently building into a MAME cab. And speaking of MAME cabs... I'm doing my best to make a tasteful build for the classics. Not some monstrosity with a CP that you could use as a surfboard or a dinner table when extra guests arrive.

In any case, the bezel pictured is not the original bezel that would have been in this cab. Although it's in nice enough condition that I plan to re-use it in my MAME build.

And not that it will help solve the puzzle, but just in case anyone is wondering, I purchased the cab as a conversion, in really rough shape. When I got it it had Sega Champion Baseball in it (which required some work to get going). But the cabinet was originally a Zaxxon (SN: 200356).

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Sadly, the only evidence of this is the Sega/Gremlin sticker inside stating that, as you can see above. There were no Zaxxon boards, no Zaxxon harness, no Zaxxon marquee (actually, there was no marquee of any kind, come to think of it), and the monitor orientation has been switched to horizontal.

And, as I mentioned, the cabinet itself was/is in really rough shape. I won't even go into the actual rats nest that was set up in the back of the cab...

The bottom line is I don't feel that I'm destroying a dedicated classic here. Hell, I might even throw a Zaxxon marquee on it when I'm done to honor it's long gone heritage. Anyone got one?

But, I digress... First person who correctly identifies the cardboard bezel wins... KLOV forum notoriety!


Go!
 
Space Fury

We have a winner! I was actually thinking that's what it was (only noticed it this afternoon as I was working around the cab). It looks like it was sort of painted over. It's really faint unless you look up close.

Thanks for the response. That was way more fun than an Internet search!

By the way... Space Fury is a game I'd love to add to my arcade some day. Do you own one?

I played the heck out of the Colecovision version back in the day...
 
The weird thing is this:

Zaxxon (which is what your cab was) has the same cabinet as Space Fury. Space Fury, though, is a vector game so it uses a different monitor.

So it was a Zaxxon, which came out in 1982. Then somebody removed the monitor, all the wiring, and completely rewired the game to make it a Space fury (different monitor)...which came out a year earlier...

then did it all again to make it a Sega Championship Baseball?(back to a raster monitor)...

I'll bet for whatever reason the only Space Fury part that made it onto the cabinet was the bezel.
 
The weird thing is this:

Zaxxon (which is what your cab was) has the same cabinet as Space Fury. Space Fury, though, is a vector game so it uses a different monitor.

So it was a Zaxxon, which came out in 1982. Then somebody removed the monitor, all the wiring, and completely rewired the game to make it a Space fury (different monitor)...which came out a year earlier...

then did it all again to make it a Sega Championship Baseball?(back to a raster monitor)...

I'll bet for whatever reason the only Space Fury part that made it onto the cabinet was the bezel.

That may very well be what happened. But it seems the plot thickens...

Today I finally got some time to start going through the cabinet more thoroughly, and I removed the power board. I hadn't gotten a close look at it until today, since access is pretty limited in the center section of the cab. Upon taking it out, it's kind of a weird hybrid of isolation transformer, switcher, and additional linear style power board. And all of these components were being used for the Champion Baseball boards that were in there.

And the weirder part is that the monitor is wired for 100v (verified that with a meter too). It's a 19" Nanao/Sega MC-2000-S chassis with a Mitsubishi tube. I thought only Nintendo cabs had 100v monitors?

But the coolest thing I discovered, after doing some measuring, is that the wood frame the monitor is in is a perfect square. So I removed 4 carriage bolts, pulled the frame out a bit, and rotated the monitor to vertical. So now I can have the best of both worlds with my MAME build. I was planning a horizontal cab initially, but I think I'll get more use out of a vertical setup. The only drawback is I won't be able to use the cool Space Fury monitor bezel, unless I go back to horizontal.

So, anyone know if this easily rotated monitor frame was common in all Sega Zaxxon / Space Fury cabs, or is this yet another strange thing about this Franken-cab I have here?
 
Well, save that bezel. Someone who is restoring a Space Fury may want it...$$$ ka-ching!
 
I'm not sure about the rotatable monitor, but I think that 100v monitor, and the iso/switcher, etc. part is probably from the Zaxxon. I haven't looked at mine in a while but on the boack board there's the gameboard, and then in front of it is a panel with a switcher, an ISO, and some other goodies on it. So that sounds kind of like what's in yours.
 
I'm not sure about the rotatable monitor, but I think that 100v monitor, and the iso/switcher, etc. part is probably from the Zaxxon. I haven't looked at mine in a while but on the boack board there's the gameboard, and then in front of it is a panel with a switcher, an ISO, and some other goodies on it. So that sounds kind of like what's in yours.

I was talking about this in another thread ( http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showpost.php?p=2289906 ), but basically, according to the Zaxxon manual I found online, this make/model was indeed the original monitor. Confirmation of this also came when I took a really good look at the screen under fluorescent lighting. The Champion Baseball burn-in is obvious, but I can also definitely see Zaxxon burn-in, but it's not nearly as pronounced. So apparently this cabinet had Champion Baseball in it far longer than it had Zaxxon.

I'm still going ahead with making it a MAME cab, but I now have a Zaxxon marquee, and just last week picked up a full/populated Zaxxon control panel - so I can swap that in for my MAME control panel when needed.

If I can find the side art and a bezel, I can load up Zaxxon in MAME and be good to go. Eventually I'd like to install a Zaxxon board and make it official though.

As for the rotatable monitor/frame.. another guy here with a Zaxxon said his is set up the same way. I don't know if they are all like this, but it would make sense for Sega, since it sure makes conversions easier.
 
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It probably never got converted to Space Fury, it just got a Space Fury bezel because the Space Fury bezel fit.

I had the same cabinet that was an Eliminator (vector) converted to a Video Trivia (raster) that I converted to City Connection.
 
It probably never got converted to Space Fury, it just got a Space Fury bezel because the Space Fury bezel fit.

That's what I think too. In any case, I always find the history of these cabs interesting - what they went through to get where they ended up. So how did you determine what yours had been?
 
I still had the Eliminator serial number and the Eliminator power supply was still in the cabinet, not hooked up to anything.

That's what I think too. In any case, I always find the history of these cabs interesting - what they went through to get where they ended up. So how did you determine what yours had been?
 
I still had the Eliminator serial number and the Eliminator power supply was still in the cabinet, not hooked up to anything.

I don't think I ever played Eliminator, but City Connection is a great game. Can you share some pictures of your cab as it is now? I'd love to see it.
 
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