Congratulations on the PCB and other garage sale leftovers. I walked right past that Tetris PCB at a swap meet thinking it was just a generic. 😩 Guy right behind me, snatched it up immediately, lol… We live, we learn, we enjoy the hunt. & your integrity!! 🍻
Atari Tetris has two ROM versions. Upright (horizontal) and Cocktail (vertical). There is no DIP switch to change modes since orientation is different for both. I own the upright PCB. Atari Tetris is hands down THE best version of Tetris. Period.
Not a bad deal at all for 3 decent cabs you could totally refurbish. Digging the painted Ms. Pacman artwork! I really like that Primal Rage cab in the background, a game that's notorious for not being properly emulated as of yet. I absolutely loved that game as a teenager, despite its quirky controls. Then there was the ultra rare Primal Rage 2, which was sadly scrapped by Atari, but luckily emulated to work in MAME after decades of being unplayable.
First warning sign is the rust all over the metal parts. That means the cabinets were stored in some misty shed exposed to elements. You have a lot of extra work ahead of you. Some of the cabinets might not look swollen in some places because they are uniformly swollen throughout ;). Somehow I have a feeling they still had the keys, but didn't want to show how bad the inside is. Maybe that elderly couple wasn't so nice after all ;).
@@overtimearcade It's one thing one of these arcade machines, but another pulling a trigger on a rusted out (and flaked out) like this EM pinball. The horror...
Speaking of finding money in a machine. I bought a gambling 🎰 machine. Probably had 5 to 7 bucks of quarters in the bottom. But basically ever time you move it or bump it a quarter falls out 😅
That Atari cocktail table would be interesting to research more. As far as I know, there were only kits for cocktail, but Atari shipped Tetris in cabaret cabinets that were supposed to be Klaxx. The kits also included serial number stickers, so it might look more like dedicated cocktail, but it's not. It would be interesting, if you could find any more info what your cocktail table originally was.
It’s not a dedicated Atari Tetris cocktail. No such thing exists. It’s a Dynamo HS-6 square top cocktail, a generic cabinet designed to have a conversion kit installed. See the original flyer here: flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/4084
@@overtimearcade Yeah, no surprise there, as I mentioned that in the original post. It's still good to confirm and find out what games were there before (leftover stickers, etc.). I've played Klaxx on converted cabinets before, but never on dedicated cabaret ones:). It's strange, but I rarely saw any cabaret cabinets in arcade saloons in the past lol. Just full size or cocktail. Cockpit versions were also very rare probably due to shipping cost to Europe and space requirements.
Yep definitely played Tetris in the Arcade, and they had a few of them too all lines up. As a matter of fact I feel like playing the original now thanks to you Charlie.
After selling/trading 3 recently, I’m down to 42 in my basement & garage at the moment. 5 will be leaving soon for Mark’s arcade, but then I’ve got 3 more awaiting pickup. 😎
I'm probably wrong, but I know that dynamo did release a few cocktail cabinets that your tetri looks very similar too. If it is, I don't know why they put a midway coin door on it.
You're not wrong! Here's the original flyer that shows the same coin door -- perhaps the just used the same supplier as Midway without the badge? flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/4084
I'm not sure if the Dynamo HS-6 cocktail is rare, but it's certainly uncommon. Here's the flyer: flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/4084 And DonPanetta has some IRL photos here: forums.arcade-museum.com/media/albums/dynamo-hs-6-cocktail.2102/
@@overtimearcade yeah I can’t see them being super popular because like most cocktails they take up so much space. But sometimes there’s nothing like sitting down at a cocktail table to challenge a friend. I used to spend many a lunch playing Qix against my friend on a great cocktail machine.
That’s really cool! Sometimes, a cocktail cabinet is a great fit on its own, but it’s often a real pain to add it to a collection of upright cabs. Those Taito cocktails in particular like Qix are massive!
@@overtimearcade Didn't notice that. But, years ago looking into arcade games. The small cabinets (ms. pacman) was for places had less space. Thus, being place in say a bar. I'm pretty sure they have another name to. Unlike say the counter top cabinets that ran say cherry gambling games. I would have to go find a manual online to see what options and sizes the cabinet names officially came in. Oh, I see the pink one. To me those was called Cocktale machines.
The smaller cabinets like the Ms. Pac-Man in this video went by different names... most frequently called "cabaret" cabs (like by Atari), but Bally-Midway called theirs "mini" cabs and other companies called them different things. Collectors now usually refer to them all as cabarets. "Cocktail" cabinets usually refer to table machines, like the Tetris one in this video. The really small ones like the pink thing here) which was custom homemade by someone) are generally referred to as countertop/bartop cabs.
