Vertical Multigame
Cabinet Originally Manufactured by Atari © 1988
| Condition When Purchased: | D |
| Current Condition: | B |
Somehow, over the last 10 years and 100 games or so (75 plus having been sold)… I had yet to have a single one of them come back to me. Whether this speaks good or bad of the quality of the machine sold, I’ll leave up to you. That record has now been broken… well, sort of. See, while this IS the second time I’ve owned this game, I did not sell it to someone originally… but I rather gave it to someone… actually, three someones. About 6 years back I picked this cabinet up as a “Two Crude” from a local strip bar. It was housed in what appeared to be an Atari Galaga `88 or Pacmania (the control panel had only one button per side). I went on to making it a 60-in-1 Multigame for my two nephews and niece (at the time, the twins were 13 years old and the older brother was 15). This past Thanksgiving vacation I stopped by my sisters house to pick up an item for my mother and I saw the multigame… sitting all by itself out in the garage… unplugged, and literally covered in “stuff”. It had quite obviously been retired and was sitting in the garage doing nothing.
Later that afternoon after we had all sat down for Thanksgiving dinner, I asked them if they were interested in “selling back” the game to me. I was unsurprised when they all said they 
were. See, all but one have moved out of the house and are living on their own… I’m sure some cold hard cash is more important to them than some old arcade game sitting in their mothers garage. So we came to an agreement (of which I am a very proud uncle of a shrewd niece who was the ONLY one to push-back on my offer and take me for extra dough) and I picked up the game.
The first thing I did was remove the crappy 60-in-1 PCB. I already had a Pandora’s Box 4 sitting waiting to run vertically (King of Air). While the game count was pretty small (if I remember right, there were 20 or so playable games), it would do for the couple weeks it would take to get the ARpiCADE and Rasberry Pi 3 setup I was planning on eventually getting (review of the ARpiCADE coming soon). Looking at the cabinet, I did a pretty good job of cleaning up the cabinet when I converted it from Two Crude to the multigame. I’m not a big fan of the artwork that was selected… I had given my brother-in-law (at the time) the reigns when it came to selecting the generic mutigame artwork package… but it is what it is. I am going to keep everything exactly the way it is for now. I am considering one day de-converting this cabinet back to likely a Galaga `88… and keeping the multigame in there making it a semi-clandestine multigame (the keen among us would note the 3 buttons however). As for now, it will remain as it is.
You can now read about the multi-arcade game system that I am using in this cabinet called the ARpiCADE. Check out my brand new review of it HERE!
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