Just wondering if anyone has any info and/or decent pictures of the Japanese Xevious Cabinet. I know that the marquee is different from the western Atari release but are there any other differences in the cabs?
Looking at the Atari control panel it's very similar to Gravitar which suggests to me that the Xevious panel was created by Atari too.
I've Googled around but haven't really found much info on this.
Japanese Xevious Cabinet Info?
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Re: Japanese Xevious Cabinet Info?
There was no upright model.
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Atari never released a dedicated cocktail-table version cab of Xevious either. So basically, the artwork on the front-mounted control panel was all done in-house at the Milpitas, CA based Atari arcade division indeed. There's even a cool list of Xevious enemies with pictures and their names + scoring values for your perusal.
If an arcade operator bought a brand new Atari manufactured Xevious upright cab back in the day, it came with a cool full-colored front cover instruction manual with the rest of the inside pages printed in black & white at best (that's a cool shmup collector's item these days) -- I've personally flipped through one myself & it's truly worth it's weight in gold to snag one for your arcade shmup gaming stash. It goes for about $15-$20 in mint condition nowadays. Of course, it's not something you very often these days.
Atari Factoid time: Back in the early 1980s, Atari had their own brand named arcades called "Atari Adventure". Atari Adventure themed tokens were dispensed at the token machine upon redeeming your single dollar (or even a five dollar bill denomination for that matter). Heck, there was even one at the world-famous Pier 39 in San Francisco, CA back in the day. Eventually, all of them were bought out by Namco and renamed/converrted into Namco "Cyber Station" arcades -- all the arcade & pinball machines took tokens as the gold standard to credit/coin 'em up + the usual prize redemption games to redeem your tickets on at the front prize counter. True fact -- ye olde arcade gamers like myself will recall those arcades with fond memories.
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If an arcade operator bought a brand new Atari manufactured Xevious upright cab back in the day, it came with a cool full-colored front cover instruction manual with the rest of the inside pages printed in black & white at best (that's a cool shmup collector's item these days) -- I've personally flipped through one myself & it's truly worth it's weight in gold to snag one for your arcade shmup gaming stash. It goes for about $15-$20 in mint condition nowadays. Of course, it's not something you very often these days.
Atari Factoid time: Back in the early 1980s, Atari had their own brand named arcades called "Atari Adventure". Atari Adventure themed tokens were dispensed at the token machine upon redeeming your single dollar (or even a five dollar bill denomination for that matter). Heck, there was even one at the world-famous Pier 39 in San Francisco, CA back in the day. Eventually, all of them were bought out by Namco and renamed/converrted into Namco "Cyber Station" arcades -- all the arcade & pinball machines took tokens as the gold standard to credit/coin 'em up + the usual prize redemption games to redeem your tickets on at the front prize counter. True fact -- ye olde arcade gamers like myself will recall those arcades with fond memories.
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