Tabletop MVS?

This may be an insane question (I blame it on the sinus medication) but has anyone ever seen or rigged an old tabletop cabinet with an mvs board.

Is it even possible, are those pac-man, space invaders cabinets even Jamma compatable?

Scanline said:

This may be an insane question (I blame it on the sinus medication) but has anyone ever seen or rigged an old tabletop cabinet with an mvs board.

Is it even possible, are those pac-man, space invaders cabinets even Jamma compatable?

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Well,I think with money,time and wiring knowledge it's possible,but I've never seen one..

I think someone did make one though..I can't find the old picture..
It would be cool to see one that has been nicely done..

The closest things I've seen to a Cocktail Table or Tabletop were these..

Tabletop? I was thinking about that while taking a dump this past weekend. hehe... maybe get some wood, a 13-14" TV and an AES or consolized MVS, some red/black paint and some repro stickers and build a little tabletop arcade cab for the office or something...

StealthLurker...

Your home arcde is mindblowing. Wow.

Since you have both Japanese sit-down and American stand-up Neo cabs, can you tell me which kind is better? Is one preferable over the other for you?

Diggerman said:

StealthLurker...

Your home arcde is mindblowing. Wow.

Since you have both Japanese sit-down and American stand-up Neo cabs, can you tell me which kind is better? Is one preferable over the other for you?

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Indeed, if I ever visit the San Diego area, SL is going to have to watch out for my trusty 2"x4" moving quickly towards his head..

Oh yeah, I see no reason you couldn't make a cocktail Neo Geo. Hell, there are MAME cocktail tables. Might be a fun project.

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chris1 said:

Well,I think with money,time and wiring knowledge it's possible,but I've never seen one..

I think someone did make one though..I can't find the old picture..
It would be cool to see one that has been nicely done..

The closest things I've seen to a Cocktail Table or Tabletop were these..

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Nice use of the old Nintendo VS cabinet...looks like the one-slot board fits right in there. Obviously something like a 4 or 6 slot board set up is out of the question unless a compartment was built underneath the cabinet itself since space is so limited. I've seen a VS cab turned into a NFL Blitz 2000 before

Thx Digger, in terms of functionality I would go w/ a japanese cab. They're easier to move around (most have wheels underneath and they're just generally lighter), tend to have bigger - higher quality monitors, easier to access monitor controls/etc and I actually prefer to play sitting down. I really only keep western style cabs for the nostalgia factor since I grew up playing these bad boys. When I get a bigger place I hope to get a "big red" (US style neo mvs), one of those deluxe dynamo 33" cabs and maybe some kind of sit-down racing game.

KMGor... LOL! Just gimmee some notice so I can get insurance for the stuff.. That way we can both possibly make some money on the side when my stuff mysteriously gets stolen. LOL j/p.

KMGor... LOL! Just gimmee some notice so I can get insurance for the stuff.. That way we can both possibly make some money on the side when my stuff mysteriously gets stolen. LOL j/p.

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Right... Just playing, I get you ::taps nose::

Can you tell me the widths of your candies? I haven't seen measurements on them, except one which put it at 28.5". I ask because I'm intending to buy a 4 slot candy for $600 in a while, and I'm not sure if it will fit through my doorway.

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The closest things I've seen to a Cocktail Table or Tabletop were these..





Those are pics of the table top cab I bought on ebay. I love it and it doesn't take much space.

How quickly they forget...

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Briggs said:

One ugly ass cab

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You trashed it? Why?

I would love to have a tabletop like that.

Oh god. Why did you make me remember?

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Decepticon said:

You trashed it? Why?

I would love to have a tabletop like that.

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Tonk did, iirc. Apparently it got beat up in shipping so he smashed it to bits.

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Talen said:

Tonk did, iirc. Apparently it got beat up in shipping so he smashed it to bits.

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What a tragedy

Looks like I am soon to build me a tabletop Jamma cab.

Do you have the designs used to make it or did you just throw shit together while building it?

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Briggs said:

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Sob

Sob

Here in Italy a cab (whichever CAB) it's a very rare... and hard to find.

Shit*slot machines*video pocker*Shit

Whoever lined the control panel did a great job!! That was a nice lil' show piece. DAMN SHAME.
I've seen a couple(like 5 all lined up) at a USA auction back in like '97 '98
-BB

I've been told that those mini table tops were official SNK products, as they used to list tabletop units in sales brochures.

I'd LOVE to have one.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Memories... a God-darned shame.

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Sonic Blast said:

The closest things I've seen to a Cocktail Table or Tabletop were these..

Those are pics of the table top cab I bought on ebay. I love it and it doesn't take much space.

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That was mine! So you're the one who bought it from me huh? Glad to see you like it! I wish I'd kept that Galaxy Fight

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Briggs said:

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Now that I see that picture, I DO remember seeing one of those a long time ago released as an official SNK cabinet. These days, you can most likely get an older countertop poker or trivia game cab and do somthing similar to that

I don't think SNK released any tabletops.

That one is an old Nintendo Playchoice Tabletop

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I'm prettttty sure they did, or at least were speaking of it. I think I remember reading about it in Replay - I think it was some media person speaking of how they had a neo for all setups. And I think somewhere around here at one time I had a pricelist of equipment which mentioned it.

maybe not...

I meant if anyone had seen something like this converted into an MVS. Not a minicab, but with the monitor faced up from under the table.

I got an empty cab exactly the same as that just different control panel, it had Scramble marquees when I got it. (its used as a coffee table now, it was once a mame cab) I thought of running a mvs board in it, the only trouble is the crt is vertically orientated. On those Taito cocktals rotating the crt means butchering the top wood work beneath the glass, its possible but a crying shame to destroy such arcade history. You could have another top made up to accomodate a horizontal crt I guess. There are also horizontal versions of the same cab, now that would be ideal project. Trouble is player 2 has to balance on his head The other consideration is that the buttons would be mounted vertically making it near impossible to play mvs, most of the original games in those cabs would have had one or two buttons only, so a complete rework of the control panel would be required. On my cab there are boxes mounted on each cpanel with two buttons on top of each (I think this was the original Scramble config, forget?)


BTW those cabs are from the late 70s-very early 80s so the original wiring will not be jamma. It is easy to make a convertor for this using a jamma socket and fingerboard to match the original boardset.

Other than the cab being one player and having to build a control panel from scratch, getting a horizontal orientated cab (unless you dont mind hacking a vertical version) and converting from the original edge connect to jamma/mvs its plain sailing.

This is the sort of cp to build, with an extra couple of buttons of course.

With a horizontal mount crt cocktail cab it would be feasable