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Known Japanese upright Namco cabinets
« on: April 30, 2013, 12:21:38 AM »
Well ever since I found my Jap Namco Galaxian I'm interested in how many of this type of cabinet is known to still exist and who has them.

I'll start with a simple list, would be great to ad pics a bit later.

Tank Battalion:
- Alpha1
- Zorg (2x AFAIK)
- there were 4 for sale in a huge cab lot a year or two ago in Germany. Anyone know what happened to them ?

Puckman:
- Namco HQ Tokyo Japan
- Japanese arcade museum

Galaxian:
- Japanese arcade museum
- Level42-found in Amsterdam, 2013
- Synonym9-found in Austria, August 2014

Galaga:
- AtariToobin


Galaxian Namco Bertolino (Italy) version:
- Belike
- Muerto

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Re: Known Japanese upright Namco cabinets
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2013, 12:42:12 AM »
There's another Galaxian at sort of Nostalgia museum in Japan (not the UGSF one, different joystick).  Another one aside from the UGSF one, but I'm not entirely sure of its location.  



There was an upright Puckman at the Hatoya Game Center as of 2003 in Japan.

There's a Namco cab converted to Ring King in the movie Big :( (no clue if it still exists, but in the U.S.)



Arch here has a Rally-X.  There's another one somewhere in the U.S.  There's at least one more converted to Puck-Man in another museum type setup in Japan.  Sounds like there may be yet another one in the UK  :)



Dazza1 has (had?) a Xevious in the UK.    White T-moulding.



There's a Mappy in an abandoned hotel in Japan. Appears to have orange/chrome molding not unlike Nichibutsu cabinets.



I heard of another upright Galaga in Florida, U.S.A. somewhere.  There's a pic of one that keeps making the rounds on the internet with a black coin door and a screenshot in place of the instruction card.  No idea of the origin of this/where it's located.
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Re: Known Japanese upright Namco cabinets
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2013, 12:47:58 AM »
Are all those games in the same shape upright ? Because that was kind of my goal with this thread :)

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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2013, 12:50:45 AM »
Are all those games in the same shape upright ? Because that was kind of my goal with this thread :)

Yes, Gee Bee isn't.  I'll remove that  8)

I've seen a Namco Dig Dug upright marquee, but never the cabinet.  I suspect since Mappy (later game) was in this cab that Dig Dug was as well (as well as that little Tehkan upright cab).
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« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2013, 06:47:43 AM »
- there were 4 for sale in a huge cab lot a year or two ago in Germany. Anyone know what happened to them ?

i remember that lot! actually, there were two of them for sale within weeks, but these were the days when i wasn't thinking big back then, being ready to go "all in"  ;). i also remember you saying, andrĂ©, that the buttons alone are worth a fortune!!! never know who bought the stuff though.
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« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2013, 10:42:14 AM »
i was supposed to get the tank battalions together with Rob, but then he decided to not answer my calls anymore.  >:(

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« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2013, 12:15:35 PM »
I've just picked up a converted Rally X. Lucky for me it just has Xevious in there, and it still has the original harness and boardset still in it! The monitor was rotated, but the bezel marquee and other parts are all still Rally X.

I remember the auction with the 4 Namco Tank Batallions also. Was in some crazy old building with a few other cabinets.

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Re: Known Japanese upright Namco cabinets
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2013, 03:25:30 PM »
i was supposed to get the tank battalions together with Rob, but then he decided to not answer my calls anymore.  >:(

Pic from that lot:



Thread about it here:

https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=906.0


I see only 2 now, but I thought there were 4 of them ....


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« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2013, 05:26:57 PM »
i was supposed to get the tank battalions together with Rob, but then he decided to not answer my calls anymore.  >:(

Pic from that lot:



Thread about it here:

https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=906.0


I see only 2 now, but I thought there were 4 of them ....



Looks like one is hiding in the other pic, so that's 3.


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« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2013, 05:46:42 PM »
such a shame that we missed that back then! if something like that showed up today, i'd hit rent a van and hit the road in a heartbeat!
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« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2013, 12:52:27 AM »
I'd love to see you put 34 machines in a van :)

The only option would have been a truck for the good stuff and a garbage truck for the junk......:-)

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Re: Known Japanese upright Namco cabinets
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2013, 07:03:44 AM »


and



seem to be two different cabs.

- different coin-mechs
- one has the coin door label one doesn't
- one has a very faded instruction sheet, the other in quite red condition still

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« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2013, 03:59:24 PM »
never mind


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« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2013, 04:36:05 PM »
Yep, the top one is from 怪しい少年少女博物館 (Peculiar/Odd? Boys and Girls Museum) in Shizuoka and I'm not sure where the second one is located.  It's definitely not the UGSF one.

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« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2014, 12:44:57 AM »


I read a lot about that japanese Galaxian Cabinet and wonder what it is all about?

From what I understood the difference to the italian Bortolino is the bigger, greenish coindoor, the joystick-control rather than left/right-buttons and of course that rectangular player 1/2-buttons...is that correct?

There are only 2 units that are known to exist, the one from Level42 (great band) and the japanese arcade-museum?

What would such a cab worth if it is so rare and such saught after-piece?
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