Please help id this cab

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I know the pic is bad but dose anyone know what this WAS?
 

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The cabinet sure looks like an early Taito, and assuming that bezel is original, it is a Taito, but not a Stratovox.

Possibly something like "Marine Date" or "Indian Battle". If you can see any of the original paint showing from under the black, it could give an indication of what it was. Indian Battle was largely orange, similar to the T-molding color showing through the scratches, Marine Date was green, and had that same orange T-molding.

There were at least a couple others that used that same bezel, "Space Seeker" and "Frogs and Spiders". I don't think any of them were very common.

The control panel doesn't look original, and although "Marine Date" was a trackball game, it didn't use that particular trackball.
 
from the bezel i'm guessing it was Frog and Spiders.

Yep...

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Some early Birdie Kings came in that style of cabinet as well, which would make sense if the trackball hole was already there. Looks like the start button placement is about right, but appear to have been replaced with larger microswitch buttons.
 

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Some early Birdie Kings came in that style of cabinet as well, which would make sense if the trackball hole was already there. Looks like the start button placement is about right, but appear to have been replaced with larger microswitch buttons.

We're ID'ing it as Frog and Spiders from the bezel....
 
This one also seems to have the same bezel:

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Taito also used it on games in addition to the ones Technopope mentioned that were licensed for distribution in Japan that there aren't flyers for on arcadeflyers (e.g. Taito Phoenix is pretty close but the blues are different).

The bezels seem to be designed such that they can be used regardless of how the monitor is mounted, with the bezel under the plexi masking off the excess empty space.

I have a PlayMeter magazine discussing the "New" Birdie King, showing that dedicated Taito cab I posted above. Not sure if the pics are good enough to see the bezel. The panel holes in the CP of the cab in the original post seem to line up pretty well... Seems odd that the operator would have a Birdie King panel for a dedicated Taito cab, hack it up and use it on another Taito cab but hey, stranger things have happened! :)
 
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Attached are the Birdie King II images from RePlay magazine.
 

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The Birdie king II I had looked like this:

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Some dedicated games in the Birdie King series also came in modified Liberator cabinets. Looks like Monroe manufactured them, so they probably used left over stock from other companies, or designs based on other cabinets.

I suspect the first were imported cabinets from Taito Japan before Monroe made their own.
 

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It was on CL, It then was moved to my garage that same day I started this thread. I have not had time to do anything more but unload it, plug it in, and fire it up for about 2 minutes.

I have not even taken the back off to see what the inside looks like.

All and all its in good shape with a near burn free working monitor.
 
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