gutsman004
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Which color do you prefer? And would you convert it to your color of choice even if the cab looks fine. Just curious.
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Check out this thread. DK was designed red.
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=64571&highlight=red+serial
My running hypothosis is that Nintendo started using the light blue Popeye cabs for DK in order to fill the insane demand for DK (there was definatley a period Nintendo was producing DK in both red and blue). So it was like "We need more DK's but there's no red cabs around. Grab those blue ones we made for Popeye and ship those bitches!" (imagine Japanese dudes running around in circles and saying this in Japanese.) Then Nintendo started producing both games in light blue to make production easier. They could fill fluctuating damand more eaisly because both cabs were the same color. This is just a hypothosis not fact (except the Japanese guys running around like crazy, that part is 100% true).
But Popeye didn't come out until 1982, so if they were putting DK cabs in blue in flyers in 1981, they couldn't be Popeye cabs. I do agree with the theory that the red artwork on DK was designed to match the red Radarscope cabs.
I think the game looks better in blue and I fail to understand why they produced it in a widebody cabinet anyway. It was the only game they put in a widebody (to my knowledge).