Need help identifying a new rare cabaret arcade game! TNT Amusements

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Need help identifying a new rare cabaret arcade game! TNT Amusements

Just got the below email about a game this collector found...Its obviously a cabaret and an overseas machine--using the Donkey Kong style coin mech...any ideas what it was originally???

Name:
Ryan Grant

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Hi Todd and company,


A friend of mine recently picked up an old Frogger in a mini-cab, but its a really odd shape and style of cabinet. I was hoping to email a picture for you guys to look at and just quickly see if you knew anything about this oddball type of cabinet. No worries if you're too busy, but you guys have seen it all, so I figured you might know alot about this type of thing.

Thanks,

Ryan
Rapid City, South Dakota

p.s. love the Youtube vids. Hope the show gets picked up, too.


====================================================================Hey Ryan!!! This is VERY unusual...the coin slot on the front means it was made overseas and sent over here same style as Donkey Kong coin slot)...It was converted to a Frogger for sure...the key to finding out what it used to be is looking in the back for ANY paper labels or words still in the machine from its manufacture....do you see anything? I am posting these pictures with your text and maybe someone knows something! Its a rare find for sure!! Here is a link to where I am posting this! Todd
 

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These were indeed a candy precursor, Namco and a few other companies in Japan offered these as generic space saving cabinets to play different games. Looks kind of like the Tehkan built cabs in this thread http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=231262&highlight=puckman&page=2 as well as the one on the bottom right corner of the Japanese Dig Dug flyer
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It looks like it's probably an off-brand with the wooden marquee space but it's still a pretty cool find. It's a great cabinet to drop older rare Namco titles in and I could see it making a pretty cool restored Phozon or Tower of Druaga if someone took the time to do it.
 
It's unique, but not in the sense that it's probably going to command a high price or anything.

I don't think the demand is there.
 
Thanks Todd and Everyone....

Just wanted to say thanks to Todd and everyone who looked into this. Thats some great info, and we even got some pictures to go with it!
 
This is actually my cabinet I picked up a few weeks ago along with an omega race that came with two pcb not to badly damaged with acid id like to get repaired. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. It needs a little work done on the wood otherwise it's not in to bad shape. Obviously it has no monitor and whats left of the guts would need to be redone.
 
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