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I bought this spiffy (well not so spiffy at the time) 1981 poker game in pretty rough non working shape.
You can hear stuff breaking inside the cab just standing next to it lol.
For some reason I just couldn't ignore the idea of still being able to use this cab somehow.
Decided not to blow a ton of coin to fix it when I can just buy another that works for alittle more,
I converted it to jamma with a flatscreen. made a new control panel.
Gutted the entire cab, fixed all the loose or broken shit on the cab.
made the old cut up /beat up control panel into something usable.
Added blinky lights to the marquee , installed a new switching power supply, LCD monitor and speaker from a 1981 missle command machine.
It can be or will be wired with a jamma harness to play Horizontal multicade boards from ebay, hollandcomputers or jammaboards website.
I coulda put new t molding on it , they do sell chrome t molding from tmolding.com fairly cheap but i wanted to
leave some stuff on the cab looking old.
Tossed the old xbox inside to run a game to see how the monitor looks, took it back out before john throws darts at me.
If I leave the cga to vga adaptor in it , any random jamma board game or a game console
but most multicade boards come with a vga out built into the boards so it wont be needed.
Here is pretty much what it looked like before..
(http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb392/turbografx/10170791_10203487356563061_7803483696033293160_n-1.jpg) (http://s1203.photobucket.com/user/turbografx/media/10170791_10203487356563061_7803483696033293160_n-1.jpg.html)

Now it looks like this.
http://youtu.be/ORXftEAd8_w

$160 takes the cab, then you add/buy your own multicade board and harness.
Vid and pics.

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