School me on Tuni Electro service inc. arcade games

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School me on Tuni Electro service inc. arcade games

My neighbor said she had a pacman at her grandmother's house and wanted me to pick it up and look at it. Turns out to be a game by Tuni, it does have a little "pacman" on the control panel. The marquee just says Tuni. The board in it is bad. It looks like all their games used the same cabinet ? Anyone know anything about these ? Never seen one before and didn't see much on the net about them.
 
the Tuni cabs were made by Century Electronics and some of their games (the ones under the Tuni label, at least,) were an early attempt a simple interchange system for upgrading to new titles.

Radar Zone and Dazzler are the two that seem to pop up most.
 
One of the recent (as in the past day or two) postings about video from a 1982 trade show had an interview with a sales rep showing how these worked (I believe it was Tuni). They used a glass stand-up cabinet to show how "easy" it was to interchange the boards. The lady being interviewed tried her best, but the interviewer asked at the end why the screen was up-side down. She was caught off guard and just said it was for two players. Looks like they brought a cocktail PCB to the show instead of something for an up-right. Pretty funny.
 
I picked up a Cosmos yesterday and started researching it and found out it was made here in Vancouver WA. with CVS board-sets from London. the owner James Tuney started Moppet games after CVS wouldn't provide the new games every 16 weeks as promised. Later when the company folded he went into sludge waste equipment and was a hobby miner. He still lives here in Vancouver Part time.
 
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