Now THIS is a conversion...

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I worked this summer at a local game store that specializes in old game hardware. Aside from doing some software development there, I worked on a lot of game consoles' hardware. Part of the job was getting this guy tuned up:

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Based on a number of clues, I've determined the history of this cabinet:

Missile Command -> Shinobi -> Street Fighter 2' Hyper Fighting

A slightly amount of Missile Command burn-in can be seen on the G07, as well as the Shinobi logo in the center. The screen bezel is also from Shinobi, it would seem, with the swords and shiruken.

A re-cap and some tuning and it's a working SF2... a switcher lies inside, no traces of the MC harness or board, and a speaker was screwed in to a wood support that holds the coin box in place with a single screw... not a top-tier conversion. I'll have to figure out a better audio solution.

Fun fact: That marquee is signed by various known Street Fighter players from when it was a SF2 Rainbow cabinet during a tournament.
Fun Fact II' HF: This is the PCB from this: http://mikejmoffitt.com/wp/?p=77

Was this conversion offered as a kit, or did someone shoe-horn this in? The control panel is just another HF marquee with holes and decals.
 
It was offered as a generic kit to turn any cabinet into SF2 like most kits were, but it certainly wasn't offered as a kit to specifically turn Missile Command into one, no.

Still, though... while I hate to see such a great game kitted into something else... at the time it wasn't working. If the op wouldn't have kitted this game.... they probably would have trashed it!

So the end result is: a Missile Command cabinet, although kitted, still exists out there that may not have if it hadn't been kitted.
 
That is my absolute worst possible HellCade conversion nightmare come true... Poor, poor Missile Command. Please rescue!

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I'd like to see it as a missile command again, but in its current location it would make far less coin than it would as the Street Fighter machine. I may plan on at least cleaning up the conversion, though; it's a little lazy.
 
I'd like to see it as a missile command again, but in its current location it would make far less coin than it would as the Street Fighter machine. I may plan on at least cleaning up the conversion, though; it's a little lazy.

There are some things more important that a few extra quarters... ;)
 
lmfao.. the two ive ran into were "gutted golf game with keyboard style controls hacked into a joust cab then stripped(still have that cab cant junk it..have dreams of multiwilliams or finding a junk joust cab with good guts)

And a galaxian cocktail.. that was gutted and made into some sort of spinner game.. then gutted and turned into an arkanoid.. then fully gutted and then i got it.

THe best i could do was make a ms pac lookalike multi. At least its something decent looking now that will get another 10,20 years of play.
 
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