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About a year ago to this day a good friend of mine asked me to clean up a z-back style cabinet which turned out to be a angle 19 cabinet bundled with Capcom bowling. At that time i began digging into some of the history of this cabinet and the company that made them Plateau Inc/Angle Manufacturing.
Fast forward to about a month ago. Another friend starts ranting on about finding a "movie theater cabinet". Last night he dropped off to me this rather peculiar cabinet. Turns out this is a United artist theater amusement solo cabinet manufactured by Pacific Coast games. Pacific Coast games in actuality is a shell company for plateau inc - better known as angle manufacturing out of Tennessee.
From what little I found out, Pacific Coast games was created as a shell company in order to bid and eventually win a contract with the newly formed United artist theaters amusement (UATA), a division of United artists movie theaters chain to produce arcade cabinets for their movie theaters. UATA would also license some mid to lower tier games and distribute them through their partners. Most notably they licensed Mission XX by Japanese developer UPL for distribution in the United States.
Unfortunately, I had no space left in my garage. A mutual friend was nice enough to open his garage to me in order to work on this cabinet. The aim of this isn't to fully restore the cabinet but rather just get it up and running enough to be a solid beater conversion cabinet.
Fast forward to about a month ago. Another friend starts ranting on about finding a "movie theater cabinet". Last night he dropped off to me this rather peculiar cabinet. Turns out this is a United artist theater amusement solo cabinet manufactured by Pacific Coast games. Pacific Coast games in actuality is a shell company for plateau inc - better known as angle manufacturing out of Tennessee.
From what little I found out, Pacific Coast games was created as a shell company in order to bid and eventually win a contract with the newly formed United artist theaters amusement (UATA), a division of United artists movie theaters chain to produce arcade cabinets for their movie theaters. UATA would also license some mid to lower tier games and distribute them through their partners. Most notably they licensed Mission XX by Japanese developer UPL for distribution in the United States.
Unfortunately, I had no space left in my garage. A mutual friend was nice enough to open his garage to me in order to work on this cabinet. The aim of this isn't to fully restore the cabinet but rather just get it up and running enough to be a solid beater conversion cabinet.