I agree, red is the way to go! I have some extra vred vinyl from Rich if you want to try... 
Waiting PATIENTLY on D2K Art .....
Waiting PATIENTLY on D2K Art .....
Omg!!!! DK TRILOGY COMPLETE!!!! Yeeha!!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome! I'm jealous! I need all those DK cabs! The only DK cab that I have right now is a Popeye cab, but it's unrestored sitting in my garage.
ajcrm125
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patchboston
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I say go for the red! It makes for really nice contrast between the light blue on the CPO.
OP
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I am starting to rebel against the red cabinet. Why?
1) I have a RED Radarscope (mark? Right? It's mine? Right?) So, the orange, blue, red thing is COVERED. Done and done.
2) The CP has the DK blue in it. it matches.
3) Most Ninty cabinets have contrasting colors. Not the SAME colors as the art. It makes no sense to have a RED colored bezel and marquee and a RED cabinet. NOT ENOUGH CONTRAST. Orange would be better, and so would blue. Nintendo never did the same colors on the cab and the bezels, marquees and CPOs. They like contrast.
So, yeah... I am thinking Orange or Blue. Red is too much red. I think you are all wrong.
And, really... think about this..
DK3 is mostly and maybe ALWAYS a conversion. What are the odds that a Radarscope or a RED DK were converted to DK3? Slim to none I say. I would imagine that a lot of DK Jr. and DK cabinets were converted to DK3. NOT Red Radarscopes and and Red DKs. That just seems silly to me. And, the Nintendo DK3 flyer shows an ORANGE cabinet. THAT makes sense. Good contrast to the rest of the art. I think red is all wrong. You all fail!!!
1) I have a RED Radarscope (mark? Right? It's mine? Right?) So, the orange, blue, red thing is COVERED. Done and done.
2) The CP has the DK blue in it. it matches.
3) Most Ninty cabinets have contrasting colors. Not the SAME colors as the art. It makes no sense to have a RED colored bezel and marquee and a RED cabinet. NOT ENOUGH CONTRAST. Orange would be better, and so would blue. Nintendo never did the same colors on the cab and the bezels, marquees and CPOs. They like contrast.
So, yeah... I am thinking Orange or Blue. Red is too much red. I think you are all wrong.
And, really... think about this..
DK3 is mostly and maybe ALWAYS a conversion. What are the odds that a Radarscope or a RED DK were converted to DK3? Slim to none I say. I would imagine that a lot of DK Jr. and DK cabinets were converted to DK3. NOT Red Radarscopes and and Red DKs. That just seems silly to me. And, the Nintendo DK3 flyer shows an ORANGE cabinet. THAT makes sense. Good contrast to the rest of the art. I think red is all wrong. You all fail!!!
Just to piss in your cornflakes a little more, I'm switching out my DK and DKJr art to the "right" cabinet. It should have been done at the factory!
Red is how DK3 should be. I could care less what the flyer shows....
Red is how DK3 should be. I could care less what the flyer shows....
ddonaldson
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Where can you find this red vinyl?
Wundercade
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Rich at ThisOldGame.com sells it.
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LyonsArcade
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Is the last game repainted royal blue? That looks kind of cool too, matches the background in the dkjr marquee.
gorfchampion
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Congrats on getting the ones you wanted. Don't forget to show us pics when you're all done...
jimkirk
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Mark is getting his house and you are probably going to lose that Radarscope pretty soon.
WodNad
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Mark is getting his house and you are probably going to lose that Radarscope pretty soon.
Don't count on that. lol
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MIKE96
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congrats on getting your Dk3 together, even though they are kits and I've seen them in the different nintendo cabs over the last couple of years, as I remember in the early 80's for me it was in the red cab. but if the blue vs cab is nice leave it like that, its whatever makes you happy
CamaroMurph
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Just to chime in on the DK3 conversion discussion I'll offer this up. I have never seen a DK3 with a tag other than the Nintendo PAK conversion kit tag. With that said I have not seen "lots" of DK3 tags.
DK3 was Nintendo's first conversion kit game. At the time it came out, the oldest games in the arcade's were Red Radarscopes and Red DK's (4 board, less reliable than blue). It would seem logical to me that BITD seeing Red DK3's in the wild would have been common. The kit came out to convert old games that didn't draw much anymore into productive games.
Operator's that didn't have any red cabinet games and had blue or orange cab's that were not making money probably put the kit in those color cabinets.
Murph
DK3 was Nintendo's first conversion kit game. At the time it came out, the oldest games in the arcade's were Red Radarscopes and Red DK's (4 board, less reliable than blue). It would seem logical to me that BITD seeing Red DK3's in the wild would have been common. The kit came out to convert old games that didn't draw much anymore into productive games.
Operator's that didn't have any red cabinet games and had blue or orange cab's that were not making money probably put the kit in those color cabinets.
Murph
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Murph, I agree with this logic. However, the numbers on red cabinets are HUGELY lower than the production numbers for Blue and Orange cabinets. So, I think it is more likely that most DK3s in the wild were blue and orange and not red. Just like the odds of seeing a RED DK in the wild were much lower. I would guess that there were more blue DK JRs then there were Red DK3s.
Phetishboy
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Murph, I agree with this logic. However, the numbers on red cabinets are HUGELY lower than the production numbers for Blue and Orange cabinets. So, I think it is more likely that most DK3s in the wild were blue and orange and not red. Just like the odds of seeing a RED DK in the wild were much lower. I would guess that there were more blue DK JRs then there were Red DK3s.
Since I have been on KLOV, nearly everyone who brings up seeing DK3's BITD remembers seeing them in red cabs. Of those that don't remember seeing them in red cabs, the majority think the kit looks better in a red cab. At this point, you are merely rationalizing and trying to justify keeping the cab blue, as it means less work for you. Sometimes I feel the same way. Clean it up, convert it and shove it into the line up. Restoring the cabs is always the tough part.
wickedbass
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OP
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I remember playing it in orange cabinets. I recall the 7-11 by my house had it in orange.
But, yes, you might be right. Blue is the easy way out.
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