Odd custom cab.

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Someone asked me about this cab.
I have never seen this style of cab before.
I think it just an odd custom cab but i have been wrong before.
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I figured that came out of someone's garage.
Made far more time consuming, farther from reality/just plain weirder shit than that myself actually.

A testimony to what can happen when there aren't enough real machines to work on in one's neighborhood.
 
I would guess that someone took the authentic parts out of that to put in a real cabinet.
Maybe I would say hope instead of guess.

It's a perfect candidate for one of numerous good recent multiboards though!

It may be weird looking but it certainly appears to be constructed decently.
Better than a bunch of the horrors seen elsewhere anyway.

CrapMAME
 
Most likely it going to converted into something else. Not be me tho. I tend to convert multi-player games back to the single game they once were. Like that failed 1n60 ms pacman machine that got converted back into a ms n pacman machine.
 
I figured that came out of someone's garage.

I think this came from a local woodshop that has cabinetry experience but not necessarily arcade experience. I think this was a comissioned job where someone had a basic idea in their head of what they wanted design-wise. Then they got some hippie who thought he was going to make a career making classic rock album covers to airbrush the side art on.
 
It's part of the arcade hobby experience. We all get into this hobby then after 6 months to a year think we know everything then drum up some idea on how we can make it rich in this hobby.
I think this came from a local woodshop that has cabinetry experience but not necessarily arcade experience. I think this was a comissioned job where someone had a basic idea in their head of what they wanted design-wise. Then they got some hippie who thought he was going to make a career making classic rock album covers to airbrush the side art on.
 
I knew immediately that I had been led to this hobby by...
a succubus.


The only question now is what song must I learn to sing backwards and shed this albatross of a habit.
 
Someone just sent me this via fb from a post about strange conversions and it may be the biggest smoking guns to this cabinet ID mystery so far. The cabinet has some variations but its clearly the same design from the same manufacturer: Either made by or for Kersten Industries. @VidyaGamez also has one of these cabinets.

I tried doing a blanket search for Kersten on the PlayMeter magazine archives but came back with nothing. The few Replay Magazines i have of the era do not have searchable text just yet. pic credit to Kyle Snyder.

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That cab is one of the odder ones I have seen in my life. Not as odd as Wacko, but a close second.
 
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