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« on: June 04, 2016, 12:06:13 am »
So, was surfing the Craigslist ads and came across a guy that was selling a few cabs, one of them was a gyruss. I get the guys number and he tells me he is moving and is selling it for 100 bucks. I drive over to his place, and he has them all lined up plugged in in the garage. And I notice it's not a gyruss like I'm used to seeing. I watched John's restore on one, kind of an unmistakable cabinet. It plays well, monitor looks great. So I pick it up. But I can't find anything on this goofy looking marquee or the cabinet shape in general. Any knowledge out there for me?

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« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2016, 03:10:13 am »
That's a weird coin door, if you poke around inside the cabinet you might find a serial number or something with a clue to what it was originally.
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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2016, 09:07:05 am »
The only number I can find besides the monitor info, is one the plate that the board fastens to says konami 002020

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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2016, 10:41:28 am »
Any chance of close up pics of the writing on the marquee and on the instructions?
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2016, 06:46:31 am »
Stern cabinet. Maybe used to be a Super Cobra?
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« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2016, 04:15:07 pm »
Konami (not Centuri) sold a kit to covert other games to Gyruss. That has that kit installed in a Stern cabinet.

The dedicated cabinets in the USA were made by Centuri using their own artwork. However, the game PCB and gameplay was licensed from Konami. MAKE SENSE?

It's a Konami game. Only Centuri had the rights for the dedicated cab. Everything else was Konami conversions.


#1 - Conversion kits were sold by the developer, Konami.
#2 - Dedicated cabs were licensed to Centuri by Konami.
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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2016, 04:30:34 pm »
Yeah, that does make sense. I was just curious because I have an empire city that was clearly converted from a Mach 3. Art was painted over, and the inside tags proved it as well, but this one had nothing. Thank you all for the help.

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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2016, 11:18:51 pm »
Could explain why you see lots of the board sets out there without the "Licensed by Centuri" text...
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