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Looks awesome! Great little cab. I'm a big fan of the cabarets and that is one unique looking cab - amazing condition too judging by the pics. Screen looks bright... any burn in or center phosphor spot? I'm am quite envious. It'd look great next to my l'il Mr Do (see attached pic). If you decide to part with it drop me a line. Please!

Interesting find. How would a cabaret battlezone work? Do you still look through the viewfinder? It'd be hell on your back if you have to. The mechs could've been from the UK and thrown onto a US cab as a quick replacement I guess. Either that or some American really wanted a mini battlezone cab and could only find one in the UK. I'll bet that cab's been on some adventures! Any chance of pics?

No Mr Do! Boo I'm going to try and beat the Pacman, Ms pacman and galaga ones later. I'll post my results... wait no Galaga either

Some great pics here slampam http://marvin3m.com/arcade/shark.htm Along with a schematic manual. http://www.pingeek.com/killer/killer.htm Finally, on the link below there's a clip of the game as shown in Jaws. Shows the actual game in much better rez than any other clip I've seen. http://bavatuesdays.com/killer-shark-1972/

Here's a vid of the game port that was posted in the OP : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_epQok7bs It definitely isn't working properly as the 'squeak' from the shark only happened when you hit him and you couldn't hit him nearly enough times to make that racket. Seems like a lazy flash job sadly. So here's a vid of the game in action... from the inside! Also, you can see how much more menacing the game is when played in the dark. Note the movement in water - amazing really. Unfortunately it looks like the 'death scene' disk is not spinning so the shark dies on a single frame instead of animating. slampam feel free to add these links to your OP if you want.

Ahh! Links don't work - you've copied the smaller truncated links with the ellipsis in them!

Oh? Where do you live now? I grew up the Welsh end of the A55 (Anglesey). I didn't see my first arcade until around 1980 during a Butlins holiday in Minehead. Would have been around 11 years old. On my side of North Wales there was nothing. One opened in Bangor opened in the late 80's (still going, but mostly fruit machines). I remember there being one or two in Llanfairfechan, which is the other side of Bangor at around that time. The only ones I knew of on the island were at Benllech, which had two. Again, this was in the mid to late eighties. I think it may be where I last played Galaxians and Pac-Man on an arcade cabinet around 1987/88. Having said that, I used to pump most of my YTS pay into the Double Dragon or Hang-On machines at the local pub when I was working in Benllech as a trainee programmer at that time (converting PET software to PC with GWBASIC and Clipper). And as for that racing game you mentioned? I'm pretty damned sure I played that in Butlins. Hello fellow taff! I live in the US now south of Philly been here 11 years - coincidentally many of the places around me, say within 20 miles, are all welsh names, Colwyn Bay, Bryn Mawr, Llangollen (which the locals pronouce 'lan-gow-len') there's even a town called "North Wales" which is next to a town called Gwynedd. Kinda strange seeing the place names scattered all wrong like. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...528717&z=12 I was born in Bangor as Llandudno's maternity ward had closed, but I didn't go there much but I do seem to remember the one tiny arcade (down a little hill in the centre of town maybe?) there when I went to get some tattoo work done there. It would've been sometime in the late 80s so I guess that's right. I used to go on bike rallies to Anglesey (silver bay?) and don't remember seeing anything close to an arcade. Several games in pubs though - usually cocktail DKs or a Spacey. There were arcade cabs in Betws in Dil's diner but I don't think it had a dedicated venue. This thread's offering a strange trip down memory lane!

I believe it was also re-released with the "Jaws" logo on it - have to check, could be my dodgy old memory as I remember playing the original when it was released. [edit] note the Computer space in the Jaws screencap!

Not sure what you're after then. But does this help? http://www.arcadeflyers.com/flyers_video/taito/28002102.jpg

It's a Jungle Hunt derivative so I doubt the manual is that different. There's a couple of PDFs of the Jungle Hunt version on Klov if it helps.

Nice find - wiiiide cab for the 25" screen though! The marquee doesn't fit - was it something else before?

It's says two-way in the description but that's physically a four/eight way surely.

I grew up in North Wales in the late 60s/70s in LLandudno - a seaside town. There were arcades everywhere, obviously no video games until the 70s, but shove ha'penny games, those 'what the butler saw' motorized movies, fortune tellers and so on. The first vid game I remember playing was a sit down car game with scratchy old 8mm footage of a red car that you were supposed to follow. I believe it was simply projected onto a backscreen and the 'game' had a drum or tricker tape card to know when you weren't turning when you should then a white light would flash if you didn't turn at the right time. Of course the space invader boom hit and so even more arcades popped up - we probably had 200+ along the coastline between LLandudno and Rhyl. Then as we all know things started dying down and many of them closed. In 1990 North Wales was hit by a massive flood submerging towns (particularly Towyn) in 20 foot of water. A lot of arcade owners who were reeling from the arcade crash took the opportunity to get rid of old cabs and cash in on the insurance regardless of the amount of water damage to them. I remember seeing scores of cabinets chucked into dumpsters most clearly with zero damages. Horrifying!

Did you try posting on their forums as well? http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/ The rebuttal boards on the KoK vid, offers a great insight into the making of that documentary, in so much as Walter basically admits it was pretty much more or less true, and the documentary makers didn't have a significant agenda in mind imo.

I'll bet you weren't alive in '82 there mate.

Really? Every single image I've seen has both 1p and 2p the same colour - usually blue but sometimes white (there's one on eBay right now with orange too) as the OP said. [edit] the pic with score fraudster steve sanders leaning over the machine shows both buttons as being blue this pic was taken in 1982 so it's unlikely to be a restoration. 2nd edit - added a better pic see on the right

Well, I made a marquee that's identical to the movie screencap - it took forever.

Whilst the Dragon didn't suffer from attribute clashes like the Spectrum, it did have the failing that as the resolution increased, so did the number of available colours on screen - ultimately ending with just a monochromatic high rez of something like 256x192. So most developers stuck with the more colourful blocky rez and the games suffered. So quality graphical games (for the time) on the Dragon were view and far between, but it did have some - Airball Crystal Castles 3D Space wars Microdeals famous load screen Although, going through old pics on Moby Games really opened my eyes as to just how bad they were. Sad!

I'd also like to hope that all folks reading this thread take the time to read my Namco release Donkey Kong thread antics and how they screwed up the retro release of the century. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=126468 I guess the folks who are prepared to spend 3+ grand on an anniversary machine are rare, but shoot - if you did spend that, you'd expect the same game as the original right? Email namco and ask them if you can disable the continue option on their expensive anniversary cab.

Oh I agree 100%. But pinMame is really good for trying out pins before purchase that you would otherwise not have access to. I wanted another pin and several were from a local guy at great prices - Tales from the Crypt, Shaq and Starship Troopers were the three he had recently. I fired up pinMame and played the hell of the Crypt and ST (I ruled out shaq just because I'm not a fan of basketball). Thanks to pinMame I discovered the v/o for Crypt became really annoying very quickly and so turned my attention to ST and felt it was a great pin. So ultimately I now have a near mint Starship troopers in my arcade which I wouldn't have gone for had I not been able to 'play' it first, albeit emulated.

True indeed. Here's some badly shot footage from the original microdeal release for the coco/dragon. I forgot that Mario used to disappear when you successfully jumped a barrel. Oh dear

No. Ali actually had the guts to get into the ring to fight his opponent - he didn't submit a dubious VHS of him shadow boxing to the WBO and hope they believed he was the greatest.

Personally I thought the Dragon 32 version "Donkey King" was the best. Despite the piddly 32K onboard it had all four screens emulated perfectly. It was an unofficial clone and didn't look identical colorwise due to the limitations of the Dragon but played (at least from memory- it's been 27 years!) perfectly.

Have you tried pinMame? It's utterly incredible with almost every table ever made - easy to use emulator in 3D. Unfortunately, they're undergoing reconstruction at the moment - but the table list can be seen in google's cache. http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:cbmSNf...;cd=1&gl=us CHeck out the forums for pinmame downloads http://www.vpforums.com/modules/Jig/index.php They definitely have emu'd Haunted House. Hopefully the table roms will be back up soon. [edit] shoot - just saw you wanted it for consoles. Sorry - can't help.

For a brand new machine that retails for $3500? Yeah I'd say so!