Those Midway & Konami multi games with 6 buttons

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Those Midway & Konami multi games with 6 buttons

The ones sold at retail stores like Target. Were they Jamma? Have standard 13" arcade monitors? And why the hell did they have 6 buttons?
 
Yeah, the ones that were ugly all day long. Not sure if they had a custom board or what but it think the "monitor" was just some crappy cheap 13" TV. Only played one once and I don't know what the 6 buttons were for but they were pretty junky.
 
They were not JAMMA, kind of like a glorified Jakks Pacific Pac-Man type PCBs in a cheap cabinet with monitor in one sense. One had a small PCB located under the control panel, and I want to say, the Midway had the PCB above the monitor with a replaceable cartridge to add more games (that never came out). The monitor is just some cheap tube TV. The six buttons were planned for a possible Street Fighter II (I would assume) since the Midway had the cart slot. I have one of each in my other jobs arcade (he got them pretty cheap) and I see them played quite frequently and not problematic. The sound is less desirable (quality of speaker, not sound samples). Games are adjustable-free play of course, lives, demo sounds, how hard game is, etc. It really isn't too bad having seeing them in an arcade environment on for 8 hours a day, every day for a couple years and holding up pretty well.
 
I got the Midway version at a garage sale for $25. It has a 13" tv for the monitor and plugs into RCA connectors. The extra buttons are so that you can play Defender and Stargate. That said, the quality of the buttons and joysticks is garbage. It's an interesting gimmick, if you don't mind how poorly made the cabinet is, the game play is alright. Except Robotron. Playing Robotron on these cheap microswitch joysticks is torture.
 
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