Was my Galaxian mini supposed to be a Space Encounters?

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Was my Galaxian mini supposed to be a Space Encounters?

I picked up this Galaxian Mini about a month ago. I started searching for more information about it and came across several threads that mentioned these could have originally been built to be a different game then painted over for Galaxian. I noticed on mine that there was what appeared to be yellow paint around the edges at the top. I also noticed this on another one that someone had a picture of online. So googled Space Encounters Mini and looked at the picture then noticed that my machine has a very distinct line under the paint exactly where the yellow would end on the Space Encounters. I also wonder if this explains why the serial number on the tag does not match the serial number on the cabinet.
 

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Can you submit a pic of the whole cabinet ? Im not quite sure that is an original Galaxian Cabaret. The first pics looks like it could possibly be a Pac Man or Rally X or Space Encounters cabaret style cabinet. Then we'll go from there.
 
Can you submit a pic of the whole cabinet ? Im not quite sure that is an original Galaxian Cabaret. The first pics looks like it could possibly be a Pac Man or Rally X or Space Encounters cabaret style cabinet. Then we'll go from there.

Note he said "GALAXIAN" not "GALAGA" - Galaxian used the Pac-Man style cabinet in all version including this one. (Or rather, Pac-Man used Galaxian's style...)
 
Note he said "GALAXIAN" not "GALAGA" - Galaxian used the Pac-Man style cabinet in all version including this one. (Or rather, Pac-Man used Galaxian's style...)

Who said GALAGA ?
 
Note he said "GALAXIAN" not "GALAGA" - Galaxian used the Pac-Man style cabinet in all version including this one. (Or rather, Pac-Man used Galaxian's style...)

Its like this one right ?
 

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Can you submit a pic of the whole cabinet ? Im not quite sure that is an original Galaxian Cabaret. The first pics looks like it could possibly be a Pac Man or Rally X or Space Encounters cabaret style cabinet. Then we'll go from there.
Here are a few pics of the whole cabinet.
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I saw RedlandMan's Galaxian cabaret and it also was painted over & was originally a Space Encounters cabinet from the factory. They might of done it because Space Encounters wasn't a success? I'm not sure, or they just used what they had & were in a hurry to get out the Galaxian cabarets and just painted them over black and added the white stencil.
 
And by the way they are not the same as Pac man and Rally x as everyone thinks. Galaxian shares the same shape with only Space Encounters and Space zap

Correct. You can see the slight bump-out on the sides where the control panel hits. Pac cabarets don't have that.

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Shape of the top of the cab around the marquee area is not the same. You can only tell when they are side by side.
It just so happens that I have a Pac mini right next to it, and now that you've pointed it out, I can clearly see those differences. Pretty cool. I actually thought they were the same. So I wonder if all Galaxian minis were repainted space encounters or if there are some that do not have the yellow paint underneath them?
 
It just so happens that I have a Pac mini right next to it, and now that you've pointed it out, I can clearly see those differences. Pretty cool. I actually thought they were the same. So I wonder if all Galaxian minis were repainted space encounters or if there are some that do not have the yellow paint underneath them?

If you look inside the Galaxian you can also tell where it was meant to have a shelf inside for the black and white monitor to sit on
 
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