Picked up a $50 cabaret today. What is it?

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"Super Star" Bootleg Arcade Cabaret

So I found this Cab this past weekend in my Neighborhood, a friend of mine texted me saying that they wanted $50, and that it had pacman inside, and it didn't work. Went and bought it, not knowing what it was, Found that it had a bad switcher inside, replaced it and BAM, bootleg pac-man on Galaxian hardware. Thanks to everyone here for the information, I've decided to document the machine to the best of my abilities for anyone who needs help. I have the original manual, and I'll be scanning it soon. Anyways, here are a bunch of pics of the guts!

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That's a pretty interesting cab.

The few generic cabaret cabs I've seen on here aren't quite the same as that one.
 
Artic strikes again. Here is a variation of one.

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http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=184622

Your game was originally Super Star, which was some sort of bootleg multigame. Artic was a huge game bootlegger. No two machines ever seemed to have the exact same mixture of cabinet style, artwork and coin doors. The board is an Artic board (I believe based on Galaxian hardware), not a midway one. The Pac-Man game is on the rom daughterboard. There are other daughtercards for that motherboard with different games on them hacked to run on this hardware.
 
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I believe that it was Sega (possibly Sega/Gremlin) that had some boards that closely resembled Pac-Man and Galaxian PCBs. Not sure what games ran on them, though.
 
This is Artic's bootleg of Midway hardware, this isn't the first one of these to ever pop up.

They went so far as to bootleg whole cabinets. I helped unload one recently that was a very close copy of a Pac-Man cabinet, but the board inside was a bootleg Red Clash, and the artwork was just a random mix of the various Artic artwork bits.

I believe that it was Sega (possibly Sega/Gremlin) that had some boards that closely resembled Pac-Man and Galaxian PCBs. Not sure what games ran on them, though.
 
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Artic strikes again. Here is a variation of one.

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http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=184622

Your game was originally Super Star, which was some sort of bootleg multigame. Artic was a huge game bootlegger. No two machines ever seemed to have the exact same mixture of cabinet style, artwork and coin doors. The board is an Artic board (I believe based on Galaxian hardware), not a midway one. The Pac-Man game is on the rom daughterboard. There are other daughtercards for that motherboard with different games on them hacked to run on this hardware.

I see tbbk has already brought up my old thread! (this thing is still available, BTW; cheap.)

Your marquee is different than my friends, and I'll bet $5 that the Pac-Man has Martians with antennae instead of Ghost Monsters, when/if you get it working again.
It appears that you have a daughterboard setup much like the machine here.
 
Thanks for the information guys. The WG monitor looks nearly brand new in here, and honestly, so does everything else. The cab is in great shape, really. I'm just going to pull every thing out of it, and do a DK cabaret, maybe in the style that phet did his DK Jr, that thing looked so damn good. It's an interesting little setup, so I'll make sure to set the board, bezel, ad marquee and stuff in a storage box.
 
So I decided to see if I could get the game to play today, and I have had success. The switcher inside was bad, so I replaced it and it booted, and plays. But oh god is this a horrible version of pac-man. It's such a bad rip off. It's really the same game, but If everything is hooked up correctly, and the board is working right, then this is BAD. Check out the picks here:

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/renton67/securedownload.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/renton67/securedownload1.jpg

Really...? Macky Micky Mucky and Mocky...?
 
Awesome, I'd love that game board. I like the little skinny marquee at the top of this one:

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Wish the DK cabarets would have done something like that, rather than this sticker crap:

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Urchin, Romp, Stylist and Crybaby were on a Galaga to Pac boot I saw years ago. Could that hardware be a Galaga boot hacked to play Pacman? Thats a lot of work to clone a game.
 
So I decided to see if I could get the game to play today, and I have had success. The switcher inside was bad, so I replaced it and it booted, and plays. But oh god is this a horrible version of pac-man. It's such a bad rip off. It's really the same game, but If everything is hooked up correctly, and the board is working right, then this is BAD. Check out the picks here:

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/renton67/securedownload.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/renton67/securedownload1.jpg

Really...? Macky Micky Mucky and Mocky...?

LOL That's AWESOME. Save that pcb, it's really cool!
 
I'm not going to do anything to this machine. It's honestly really cool. The monitor is freaking clean, not even an ounce of burn in. Both coin mechs still work, and I even have the original manuals from arctic in it. The wiring diagrams in the manual are wrong though. haha. It's a neat little machine. Even if the pac sounds are god awful. I feel like there is something wrong, but I have no idea.
 
get a nice 4 way joystick, JAMMA it and then put an ArcadeSD board in there.
it would make a nice multigame.
 
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