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I have posted this to Facebook but not on here yet. Also, it is quite coincidental that this all happened just before the 2600's anniversary too! After months of hard work I was finally able to finish restoring this MAJOR addition to my collection, and just in the knick of time for VCFMW. I present: my EXTREMELY rare Atari 2600 "P.O.P" kiosk! Originally, this kiosk came from an abandoned house's basement, where it sat for 40 years, 100% complete, but sadly not untouched as the basement had flooded and caused various issues to the kiosk. The two major issues being wood rot and rust/corrosion on the electronics. I'm still restoring the original Zenith TV and POP "brain" motherboard, but I have finished restoring the rest of the kiosk including replacing all the wood, trim, doors, locks, supports, screws, etc, and figured out how it all goes together without any guides. I tried to reuse as many original parts as I possibly could. Also, the 2600 kiosk is already a rare kiosk, but I said that this one is extremely rare- which is because it is the rarest variant. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that this kiosk is able to split in half! From what I was able to find, this is seemingly one of ONLY TWO "countertop" variants to exist, where the top half could be removed from the bottom cabinet in order to fit the display on a store counter if you pleased, as well as it is much easier to disassemble and transport. Note that there are many other changes from the "normal" 2600 kiosk, such as all the shelving, the top plexiglass doors, and the missing atari logo on the left side of the top "Atari Video Games" marquee, to name a few. Another interesting thing is that this kiosk included what seems to currently be the only (?) existing "dummy" 2600 console! (See my other posts) It has taken a lot out of me to get this kiosk finished in time for the show, but I couldn't be happier with the final results! Everyone loved seeing and playing on the kiosk, and many reminisced about seeing it in stores like Sears, K-Mart, and ToysRUs back in the day! Couldn't be happier to have my kiosk enjoyed by so many people, and at the end of Saturday after everyone else played on it; I then got to enjoy my 2600 kiosk myself a bit for the first time, haha. Also, if anyone has a spare 2600 kiosk motherboard they'd be willing to sell, please let me know! Huge shout-out to Ed Hathaway for agreeing to sell me this beast. As you can tell I have kept my word and will cherish it forever! Also, I finally got one more display which I've been searching for years for, being the Atari Banner! You can see it hanging behind me and I am so glad! It is made of a cloth material, dates 1982, and I even got it with original poles and the original shipping tube! As a final note, if anyone from Atari directly is reading this, let me know if you'd be interested to possibly do an official collaboration with me and remake this kiosk or a slightly smaller/updated version of it for the 2600+. Just a thought, might be fun and I'd love to personally build/design it, especially since it's also the 2600's anniversary too! Lmk! Thank you all for viewing! PXL_20230909_165201364.mp4
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Hi guys. I am a new member here, but I wanted to give the AtariAge members first dibs on this Kiosk before I list it on eBay. I have looked through the forums, and it appears the last Kiosk sold in 2014, but I don't see what price it sold for, and one in 2013 for I am assuming $750. I don't think one has popped up since then. This kiosk does not have the built in brain board. I purchased this from an older couple who got it from a K-Mart in 1986. It has been sitting in their basement ever since, and does show some signs of wear, but nothing major. Most damage as you will see in the photos is along the front control panel laminate. There is some moisture damage on the underside at the base in the rear, but you can't even see it when up against a wall. Also, it appears to be missing two of the bottom shelves, but a piece of MDF would suffice in replacement, it is pretty basic. T-molding all looks pretty decent, plexi has some scuffs but not too bad. Around the control panel there is some staining from what looks like Pepsi or something, but not too bad. I tried to clean it the best I could but with a little extra work I'm sure it could be restored further. The controls work great. In fact, it makes playing 2600 enjoyable lol. The paddles might need a shot of electronics cleaner, but they both still function fairly well. It is currently stationed in my garage, up on pallets. The featured photo shows it all decked out with merchandise (and photoshopped into a nicer looking room rather than a garage, lol) - sorry, games not included. Please click the imgur album link to see more photos. Included is the kiosk itself, the gnarly Sony Trinitron, and the 2600 console. I am in the Springfield/Dayton area in Ohio, and I assume most of you would prefer to pickup so you could see it in person first - but if I can get close to my price I might consider doing a delivery, make a weekend out of it. It would be delivered disassembled of course (assembly is like 12 screws). Here is my eBay user account if you'd like to check my feedback/whatever; http://www.ebay.com/usr/poisongoomba Link to imgur album with more photos: http://imgur.com/a/auJBu Please feel free to ask me any questions about it. I don't have a lot of room to store it, and I would love it to go to a good home where it can be preserved. Thanks! EDIT: I currently have a standing offer for $1500, the buyer wants to meet me in September. So I will put a hold on until then.
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I found and purchased this cabinet at a garage sale over the weekend which I plan to refurbish and incorporate into my collection. The man I purchased it from said he used to work for Atari in their coin operation division and said he believed it was called a "point of sale cabinet" I am having trouble tracking down any information on it such as images of similar cabinets for reference. If anyone has any information at all or even pictures to share, either recent or pictures of how they were used/ presented in stores, I'd love to see them and learn as much as I can about it so I can get it looking as accurate as possible. Thanks!
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Back in 2015, I was granted permission to access the property of an old mini-golf fun center that had been sitting abandoned for nearly three years at that point in time. The fun center had operated from 1992 - 2012, when the owners defaulted on taxes and the place shut down for good. For my photography class final I decided to do an urban exploration piece, and I was EXTREMELY lucky to walk into the vacant relic of one of my favorite childhood places. Upon walking in, I was shocked to see that there were three games left, pushed into a corner of the game room. One of which was a Ms. Pac-Man machine, which I played time and again whenever I visited. However, I always wondered why it looked so...different. The cabinet, for one, is MASSIVE. The screen, from what I can recall, was far bigger than the arcade original, though it was still a vertical upright monitor. This game also possessed the speed chip, which if my memory is correct, was not added until sometime between my childhood and teenage years. I recall the game running at normal speed when I was a kid, though I could be wrong. But the cabinet itself has always intrigued me. Despite having "MIDWAY" plastered across the top above the screen, I wondered if this cabinet was actually a super-rare bootleg of sorts. I do know the control panel art is original Pac-Man art from a company called Willis (see below) So I have several theories on what this actual machine might be: 1. A official re-release by Midway in the 1990s, using leftover cabinets from other games they produced in an effort to liquidate unsold boards. 2. The cabinet itself is one where the owners can easily switch out arcade boards to classic games they have lying around, just to swap out a game from time to time and keeps their inventory fresh-ish, possibly made by Midway in the 90s. 3. The entire thing, board included, IS a bootleg game, though this wouldn't make much sense as the company that made it would have certainly been sued by Midway for using their logo in stickers. Does anyone else have any ideas? I'd love to hear them, and if anyone else has seen something like this out in the wild before. Before I left, I stuck a note with my contact information to whoever purchased the property in order to buy the game from them if they choose to sell it.
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Could any of these new mini arcades such as the Tiny Arcade ($50) or BurgerTime ($30) be modified to run MAME and/or other emulation? The Tiny Arcade already has SD card support, but the BurgerTime cabinet looks better plus has a nice landscape monitor. This is something that is interesting to me, but the closest thing I can find other than the handhelds are hacked Coleco mini arcades from the 80's and these are loaded with a Raspberry Pi then sold for $500-$1,000 on eBay. If I was going to do that, I would rather use a new RoboTech cabinet once Coleco sells them and get help/hire here on AtariAge as it could be done for much less than $500. Troy
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This site has some interesting tidbits about Williams arcade machines, including a multi-game cabinet that runs real (not emulated) versions of Joust, Sinistar, Robotron, Splat, and Bubbles. http://www.seanriddle.com/willy2.html#pics Why do this? Well at the time (and possibly today as well) there were slight differences in blitter operations between the real machines and the emulated versions. Here's an excerpt: In older versions of MAME and in several xx-in-one boards, blits happen pretty much instantaneously, unlike the real games where the Special Chips have a maximum throughput of 1 MB/second (not counting the time it takes to write to the registers to start the blit). This results in games that appear normal at the beginning levels, but become much harder at the later levels. Robotron can have so many enemies on screen at once that all cannot be moved in one video frame. So the game moves as many as possible, then moves the rest in the next frame. With an "instantaneous blitter", all the enemies can be moved in one video frame, making the game play much faster. ... About 13% of the blits had different results in MAME than on the real game, and about 11% of the blits took a different amount of time in MAME than on the real game. I'm sure that these blits represent a very small proportion of blits done in actual game play, but they may still contribute to game play anomalies. http://seanriddle.com/blitter.html Defender and Stargate are included in the cabinet too, although those two don't actually implement blitter code.
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Hello, I'm new to the forum. I recently completed this project. Built it from scratch. I've converted gutted arcade cabinets in the past, but I never did anything like this before. I think it turned out well. Please take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks!
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I've been absent from the forums for a while now, but I've still been working on projects. I thought of a crazy idea when I bought a new flat screen 25 inch tri-mode CRT monitor and I knew a welder that was out of work. Build an aluminum arcade game cabinet of course! Unlike traditional arcade cabinets that use heavy particle board as both structural components and covers, the aluminum arcade cabinet has an aluminum endoskeleton frame that provides all structural support with covers being just covers. This allows the side covers to be made of almost anything. This arcade cabinet weighs about half what a traditional particle board arcade game cabinet weighs. Plus it's on wheels. I still have much to do: all wiring add shelf for mounting arcade PCBs and electronics add hinged door for access to electronics and PCBs cut and mount remaining aluminum diamond plate side covers mount stereo 2 way 4 x 6 speakers somewhere buy, cut, and mount lexan sheet for the upper side / rear / top side covers. Cut and mount a bezel surrounding the screen add lighted box for adding marquee (optional) add coin door (optional) I'll keep updating the progress.
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This is more or less for the locals, but I have a sit-down Neo-Geo MVS cabinet I am looking to sell. The monitor works and the MVS board includes a 120-in-1 multicart. Both joystick panels work (Player 1 stick and buttons were replaced with new parts; new parts will be included for Player 2 side in case you want to install them). Includes cash box, but there are no locks on the coin door (cheap fix). I'm looking to get $300 for it (firm). If you are interested, send me a PM. I am located in Fairfax, VA. I live on the second floor, but this is pretty lightweight and I can easily strap it to an appliance dolly and take it down on my own. Will probably be willing to trade towards console video game items, but cash is nicer.
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I've wanted to build a MAME cabinet for a long time and finally got started. I intend it to run mostly MAME, atari800, and stella. It'll be powered by a Raspberry Pi and use a 19" 1280x1024 LCD monitor. It's going to have a modular panel, like the one Rick Reynolds (here on AtariAge) built, and another one with smaller component panels. It's going to be styled like a Tempest cab; I have a sketchup based on the original dimensions, but modified a bit to make it a bit easier to cut out and build. The control panel is going to be 24" wide, and will have a bunch of smaller panels that can be swapped in and out. There are panels with 4", 5" and 7" widths, and this is a mockup of the control panel section because I wanted to experiment since I'm still not quite sure what the best way to lock the panels down securely will be: Each of the little panels has a quarter inch plywood tongue on the bottom that locks into a groove on the front of the cabinet, and another tongue at the back that I think I'll try to lock down with a hinged board that will lock into place, holding the top of the panels. Here's a view with one of the panels removed: and a closeup of the two panels I've built so far: So, I'm sure this build will take a while, but maybe by posting my progress it will help keep me motivated.
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From the album: Custom Arcade
This was our first arcade. It has the 60-in-1 on the left, a 108-in-1 in the back, and a modded XBOX with all the fixins with an X-Arcade compatible monstrosity. It was too big to move out of that room and was later disassembled and scraps and electronics were used to build the "Big Play" cabinet.© Jay "Papa" Caraway
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My first lightweight cabinet design. This later was painted and fixed up to be my "Maximum Retro" cabinet.© Jay "Papa" Caraway
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This is the Sega cabinet with the 6-in-1 cartridge showing off Sonic the Hedgehog.© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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The Games Family 60-in-1 version of Frogger!© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This is the Japanese version of Spellcaster for the Master System!© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This is the Midway version of Gauntlet II on the XBOX..© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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One of my all time favorite games is League Bowling.© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This is the Super Nintendo version of Atari Arcade classic Centipede!© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This cabinet houses a 3DO, Super Nintendo (region modded) with a Pro Fighter X disk system, a RetroPort (NES compatibility), and a RetroGen (Sega Genesis compatibility)!! It uses a 3DO to SNES controller adapter.© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This is my Street Fighter Alpha cabinet that has been upgraded to play multicarts..© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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Here is Golden Axe from the 6-in-1 cartridge!© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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The Games Family 60-in-1 has two entries for many games so you can have different dip switch setting and not have to reset and change them. Our first entry of Ms. Pacman has "Hearts" mode enabled, where the pellets are turned into little hearts!!© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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Here is another panoramic view from a taller person..© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This was the most recent cabinet we built. It has an Atari Jaguar and a 7800! A special custom made switch box selects the controls.© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015
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This is a panoramic shot of the arcade from the view of someone turning right to left and then falling over..© Jay "Papa" Caraway 2015