This Tetris cabinet is original or no?

I am pretty certain it was only sold as a kit. I researched this before I did my recent Tetris video.
 
The best Tetris conversion I ever saw was this:

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in this:

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I am pretty certain it was only sold as a kit. I researched this before I did my recent Tetris video.

Though I can't prove the "dedicated cabinet theory," I am pretty certain the Tetris machine I own was a Tetris machine-only for its entire existence. Yes it's JAMMA, and yes I've plugged different JAMMA boards into it since, but the setup inside was such a perfectly clean example of a Tetris...even the joysticks were 3-way sticks (UP was never used in Atari Tetris) when I got them. Monitor had light Tetris burn only and there's an Atari factory sticker on the back.
 
Though I can't prove the "dedicated cabinet theory," I am pretty certain the Tetris machine I own was a Tetris machine-only for its entire existence. Yes it's JAMMA, and yes I've plugged different JAMMA boards into it since, but the setup inside was such a perfectly clean example of a Tetris...even the joysticks were 3-way sticks (UP was never used in Atari Tetris) when I got them. Monitor had light Tetris burn only and there's an Atari factory sticker on the back.

Mine sounds like the same thing. It does have a Atari sticker on the back and 3-way sticks too and appears to only have ever been a Tetris. However, I wouldn't call it a "dedicated" cab. Mine is a Dynamo cut-corner control panel cabinet. My guess was Atari just bought some generic cabs to put them in. Or for that matter I guess an op could have done the same....
 
The only Atari Tetris flyer on arcadeflyers.com states "Available as Universal Kit". Now that doesn't necessarily prove anything but I thought I would point it out. From Scott's internal Atari documents, it has been stated that there were 171 Tetris cabarets made (vs. 5600 kits being made). They also have a different model number. The standard kit is 51000 and the cabaret is 51002.

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Mine sounds like the same thing. It does have a Atari sticker on the back and 3-way sticks too and appears to only have ever been a Tetris. However, I wouldn't call it a "dedicated" cab. Mine is a Dynamo cut-corner control panel cabinet. My guess was Atari just bought some generic cabs to put them in. Or for that matter I guess an op could have done the same....

Mine is in a Dynamo too, but the CP is like no Dynamo I've ever seen. Not cut corner, but the CP is a single sheet of MDF with a hinge connected to a large wooden board pull-out board with everything on it including PCB, power supply, and all wires meticulously tied up with cable ties and stapled to the large board. So strange. Yeah I agree... In my opinion, Atari released the kit at the same time as a certain number of Dynamo-based ones from the factory for ops that didn't want conversions; hence the Atari sticker on the back and the 3-way sticks on those. That's probably the closest to dedicated we'll probably ever see.

If anyone want to see it, I can take a picture of the Atari sticker on the back of my cab. LMK.
 
Mine is in a Dynamo too, but the CP is like no Dynamo I've ever seen. Not cut corner, but the CP is a single sheet of MDF with a hinge connected to a large wooden board pull-out board with everything on it including PCB, power supply, and all wires meticulously tied up with cable ties and stapled to the large board.

Sounds like mine (except for the control panel). My control panel is attached to a mdf board with everything too. Here it is:
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Mine's in a Pacman cab. I've never seen a dedicated Tetris, so I would have no clue what it would even look like.
 
Sounds like mine (except for the control panel). My control panel is attached to a mdf board with everything too. Here it is:
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Yep, that's incredibly close to mine. The sticks look identical too, just the CP is different. I think between yours and mine, we have a pretty good argument for "from the factory Dynamo Tetris cabs." There's no way different ops set those up in there like that. Mine looks not only similar, but THE SAME. It's too meticulous to be a conversion kit job. And the sticker on the back is another good argument for dedicated Dynamos.

Pics of mine after I get home.
 
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Has anybody ever seen a Tetris in one of the dedicated style Atari cabs they were using at the time for games like "Shuuz", and "Rampart"? Here's a pic

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I always imagined that would have been it's dedicated cab, but I haven't seen one so maybe they don't exist outside of those cool Cabarets.
 
Sounds like mine (except for the control panel). My control panel is attached to a mdf board with everything too. Here it is:
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That could be a factory Dynamo, but it appears as if another board has been mounted inside of it. There's extra screw holes. Also the bezel, they put the two stickers on it at different heights (kinda amatuer, like an op did it).
 
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