What cabs are these? Homemade, or something else?

United Artists had those cabs in all their theatres for games. Made switching easy and whatnot with the swappable control panels. Damn fugly though.
 
Those cabs are ugly as sin. Too bad too. Only about 20 minutes from me.

Nevermind... I didn't realize there was an Osseo, MN
 
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I have 3 of these, ugly as can be, but solid as an elephant coffin. No back door on these, no easy access to the coin box from anywhere. Only way a crackhead or a tweaker could break into these is with about 100LBs of TNT.
 
I have 3 of these, ugly as can be, but solid as an elephant coffin. No back door on these, no easy access to the coin box from anywhere. Only way a crackhead or a tweaker could break into these is with about 100LBs of TNT.

Do the cabinets happen to indicate who manufactured them? I know I asked someone about this a while back. I don't think it was you, though. I have been trying to find out who made them. And yes they were all over the UA theaters where I grew up.
 
7-11 had those cabs

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Ugly or not, that's a good deal for the parts alone. Did you buy this, Phett?
 
Yeah, the whole idea is that they could do conversions/repairs/etc in the shop and just send out the drawers with the ops.

Really cuts down on costs.
 
I saw an ad for one in a replay magazine I read once, I believe they were from 85 or so. The marquee mounts in front of the control panel. I guess it was a decent idea, they showed a rack where an op had them stored on shelves with the marquee in front so you could pick which game you want and head out the door with it. I don't imagine any ops were big enough to have extra equipment just sitting on a shelf like that, but maybe.
 
United Artists Theatre Amusements had these cabinets built for them. United Artists Theatres at one time operated all there own video games in all their theaters. The idea was to just ship out a "drawer assembly" (which included the power supply) and a marquee. The theater manager would trade out drawers and marquees. Conversion was quick and easy. Then old drawer & marquee were shipped back to home office.

The manager got a percentage of the game revenue so there was the incentive to keep the games running.

Later on, Regal Cinemas bought out United Artists Theatres. Regal Cinemas uses Dandy Amusements out of California as their national game operator in their theaters.
 
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