Tapper cabinet converted into police trainer

This thread got me thinking.
Is it me or are a lot of conversions done from rarer games?
For instance, I have four games that were converted at some stage in their life to something else. (not by me).

World Series Base Ball - Converted from Sega Champion Baseball
Tetris - Converted from Space Bugger
Arkanoid - Converted from Pengo
1942 - Converted from Q-bert

In the case with these four, "I think" all of them were rarer as the original than what they were converted to (with the exception of maybe Qbert).
I that the norm?

Not really sure about that, but I've noticed that the more odd the cabinet was, the less likely to be converted. You won't find too many converted Pole Positions or Crossbows (except to the other exidy shooters). Just not as easy as changing up the control panel on Moon Patrol, Phoenix, Pacman, etc. Many conversion kits were designed with specific original cabs in mind (Defender). I've come across some of them and many original kit boxes.

There are a lot of idle Pole Position cabs waiting for the PP clone board :)

Some of the early games that are "rare" are that way because they didn't catch on an probably weren't big earners. An op would change out poor earning games faster than an under-performing bum gets sent back to the minor league team.
 
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