Need help identifying this cocktail....

[jasonec]

I picked up a Midway cocktail in very good shape today.

The label inside it says:



Which looks like a Midway label from 1982+ like the one in my Tron cocktail:



However, the top glass is 34"x24" (2" longer and 2" wider than a standard Midway cocktail, but identical to the Midway Journey cocktail.
There are two large Midway speaker grills at the back and two small Midway vent grills at the front.
It also has round metal 2" high posts that the feet screw into at the bottom just like the Midway Journey cocktail. But the Journey cocktail has taller monitor brackets (for a vertical monitor), so this one must be for a horizontal game.

It has been wired for SEGA SystemB (not the original wiring), but it looks like the original isolation transformer block and flat Midway ground wires are still in there.

I've Googled to no avail - anyone know what game this originally was?







This is what a Midway Journey cocktail looks like (same dimensions, but with a vertical monitor and wider monitor mounts inside):

[Cornchip]

A gutted Tron cocktail #671. I've never personally seen one. The cabinet's in great shape.

[nagamitsu]

Weird, you'd think it would follow same line as the Tron tag, where senb would be a shortened form of the game name somehow.

I scrolled/searched through my whole MAME list of games, and there's some like Sengoku or similar names, but the ones closest to the senb wouldn't be Midway.

Tim

[DarkSiege]

actually midway published under the bally sente name, so maybe its one of those games

[jasonec]

I'm still Googling - apparently the only two cabs that match this one in dimensions and internal parts are Jouney (1983) and Tapper (1983):



So, it's probably a 1983 game or later....

[jasonec]

OK - I found the exact same power supply at the arcade boneyard website listed as a Bally/Sente cocktail power supply, and the following game "Gimme a break" matches the coin door and grill locations:

http://s215.photobucket.com/user/mrbill ... 8.jpg.html

SENB may stand for Bally Sente (SEN) Break (B).....

[ancientgames]

Nice $50 snag! I was too late

[nagamitsu]

I think that is definitely it. Now to make it into Galaga?

Tim

[jasonec]

I think that is definitely it. Now to make it into Galaga?

Tim

You know me so well, it's sort of creepy.....

[monkeybug]

Cocktail Pooyan!

[ken_cinder]

Sente games in dedicated cocktails were rare...but fuck it, make it a Galaga, Sente games sucked ass!

[jasonec]

Agreed!
Just started removing the crappy overlay stickers on the control panels today, and there were pieces of the original overlay underneath.
It's definitely a Tapper with a 1984 copyright year (second revision with Root Beer instead of Budweiser).
I'd be doing the arcade gods a huge injustice if I didn't restore it now....

Anyone have a Tapper PCB for sale/trade?
Working or otherwise? (I can fix those pcbs)

Well, I guess SENB actually does stand for SENte Bally (they probably used SENB for all of their games after 1984).

[nagamitsu]

If you can get the parts and get it back to an original Tapper Root Beer, you can sell it for a fair amount and get much more cabs.

Those Tapper machines, so many people collecting/looking for them, especially that version. Only seen stand up ones though, never a cocktail. (more rare?)

Tim

[Christo]

Thanks for solving the mystery, I had that thing for over 10 years and didn't know what it was originally,

[jasonec]

Thanks for solving the mystery, I had that thing for over 10 years and didn't know what it was originally,

Yeah...I think I would have lost sleep otherwise
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