New Cabinet- What the Heck is it?

Tsubaki

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Yeah Craigslist. $160 Working Monitor and 60 in 1 PCB. I love the cheesey fake TIE fighters. What the hell is it?
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These may be European releases. The second one looks strikingly similar to Asteroids Deluxe, but the controls are more like Galaxian/Galaga or even Space Invaders.
 
Both cabs' artworks are just so generic and corny. I love it. My fake TIE fighters are literally TIE fighters with antennae! What a shameless ripoff! Take that Lucasfilm!

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I still don't know what these are, but I just noticed they both have the "FF" about the marquee. Maybe someone can identify the maker based on that.
 
I still don't know what these are, but I just noticed they both have the "FF" about the marquee. Maybe someone can identify the maker based on that.

Yeah… I looked through every manufacturer in KLOV's database that starts with F… Found nothing.
 
I traded for ieure's cab this weekend :D Went through it and... No big clues as to what it might have been. The conversion job was very thorough and very clean. I did notice that the control panel wood is drilled for a second button, and the CPO has labeling for it, but the CPO wasn't actually drilled. So, there is at least one other game that must have come in this style cab, which had 'bomb' in addition to 'fire' buttons.

Also found another image of a Time Pilot '84 in this cab, though it has yet another variation on the art work.

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From this blog post: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9033611
 
Time Pilot 84 was supposed to be a kit only. It does say a few dedicated cabs were produced but I really don't believe it myself. The artwork to those 2 cabs don't even match the spaceships etc on the tp84 marquee.
Anyway, the space man on the unknown cab, to the left of the joystick looks very similar to the spaceman on Universal's Cosmic Avenger. Some of the stars on the bezel look very similar as well to Cosmic Avenger.....
I also find the artwork looks similar in ways to Taito's Stratovox.
I wonder if the artist just took idea's from these two games and possibly others.

Cosmic Avenger flyer: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=229&image=1
 
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