Super Star by Arctic? WTH?

Sanriostar

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Hello KLOV; long time lurker, 1st time poster.
If any of you are regular attendees of the SC3 meets in So-Cal, you may know me as Geoff, the big, loud and sometimes cranky guy who helps run the damned thing along with Shertz and a few others. Hi.

My friend got two games, Crystal Castles and this mystery game, 'Super Star', apparently by Arctic. Seeing as how I have an OK amount of arcade game knowledge (half of which was sponged shamelessly from Shertz), I tried investigating Super Star to no avail.

I want to apologize to any possible Ridgecrest KLOV'ers that tried to get this from the Swap Sheet that we beat to the punch. (are there any?) The ad read, "Two Arcade games, Super Star and Crystal Castles". I thought it'd be WWF Super Star Wrestling, and CC; Noooooooo.....

On to my point:

WHAT THE F---K IS THIS THING?!?!?

It's in an Arctic cabaret cab, and is what appears to be an early 80's attempt at a multigame. The games that came with it are 'Batman', (a bootleg and reduced version of Phoenix); 'Duck Man' (a bootleg of Pac-Man with hacked ghosts and the game behaves much like the Pac-Man on Galaxian hardware in MAME); 'Space Carrier' a game we couldn't get running; and a copy of 'Battle of Atlantis', a game that isn't on Arctic's KLOV list. The cab profile shows up in KLOV's entry for Devil Fish, but none of the others. ArcadeHistory.com has a small pic of another Super Star in what offhandedly looks like an early Stern conversion.

I can't ID the board. I've looked at pics of the usual suspects for this time period: Scramble, Galaxian, Pac-Man, and a legitimate Phoenix itself. I have no flipping idea.
The Monitor looks like it needs a cap kit and some color adjusting.
The boxes for the game daughterboard have Arctic Logos and addresses on them. I tried to take a decent picture of one of these boxes, but they came out looking like total ass.
The Pac-Man bootleg resets a half-second after you start a game (but just runs attract mode normally if you do nothing). What's the fix for this again?
Is there an actual 'Super Star' game by Arctic, or does my friend have what we think he has, an early 80's vintage pirate multigame?
Are there other daughterboards available for this thing?
Should we just not waste our time with this thing and just 60-in1 it?

The CC (and possibly this game) will eventually be up for trade. I'm saving that for a post in the FS/T section of the KLOV forums.
Pic1: the Cab. With a shot of the CC in the B/G. As you can see, some new T-molding is in this cab's future.
Pic2: the Bezel and a shot of it running BoA.
Pic3: Top part of the board, with a game daughterboard in it.
Pic4: the bottom part of the board.
Pic5:inside, without a game daughterboard.

Two more pics next post...
 

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The two other pictures:

Pic1: a solo shot of a game daughterboard
Pic2: the Arctic registration plate.

Have at it, what is this thing?
 

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Welcome San...

I have no idea about that Arctic game, could be a clone. I would document it thoroughly, try to offer it up to others who might want to buy it before hacking it to 60n1 land.

Regardless, it sure is ssssssuper, thanks for asking.

We will forgive you in time for knowing Shertz. :D
 
The 60-in-1 thing probably won't happen; this thing is just too.. (how can I say it?) Cheesefully unique to really want to alter. At least I won't be making it into a chair..
 
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