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Post by Front-Bum Stu on Mar 27, 2019 13:55:45 GMT
Here you go guys. I don't doubt they come from Sega, as the company I work for used to build all their cabinets. In my office I literally have office draw full of specs and designs for cabinets for their arcade machine. Most of which have been obsolete for many years. I actually had to be careful on my angle for the second picture as on the wall is a load of porn mag pictures from the late 80's or early 90's lol. You need to get these scanned and shared online right away.
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Post by badbunny on Mar 30, 2019 21:38:03 GMT
Here you go guys. I don't doubt they come from Sega, as the company I work for used to build all their cabinets. In my office I literally have office draw full of specs and designs for cabinets for their arcade machine. Most of which have been obsolete for many years. I actually had to be careful on my angle for the second picture as on the wall is a load of porn mag pictures from the late 80's or early 90's lol. You need to get these scanned and shared online right away. I wish I was allowed to, however regardless of age it is forbidden to post specs up of cabinets as the creating company owns the copyrights. It's a sackable offence sadly. Though I will say when I hold a paper A4 file in my hand which says Sega Rally or Mario Kart cabinet and you see it all starts with a handful of drawings it is kind of cool to see it go from a pile of paper, along the workshop and out the door onto a lorry at the end. These days coin pushers and fruit machines are far more in fashion than old school arcade games sadly.
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Post by desperado on Mar 30, 2019 23:25:29 GMT
Copy it, put it on a USB stick, upload it shortly before your death, disinherit your kids so they don't have to pay for the copyright violations. ... Although for the lot of us the last part is probably redundant.
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Post by dpkt101 on Apr 11, 2019 23:05:51 GMT
Badbunny thank you very much for photos! I didn't believe that those SMS cabinet prototypes could exist!!
Thank you very much!! THIS IS HISTORY!!
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Post by badbunny on Jun 29, 2019 21:02:53 GMT
Hi, your welcome. I have more of the story for you and have some more blanks to fill in. The cabinets were part of a tie up between Virgin and Sega, they were part of a production run of prototypes, that would of been put in Virgin Megastores. Sadly the joystick was a disaster for Sega, and the project was put on hold until an alternative control method could be designed. The Mega Drive / Genesis was released shortly after, and the project remains on hold. Strangely the order to terminate or scrap the project was never forth coming so inline with policy the cabinets were left as they were in 1989. 30 years later they remain in exactly the same position, Sega does not exist in it's old form and Virgin Interactive no longer exists as it was bought out by Sega shortly after the release of the Mega Drive. Hence no one can give the order to scrap these units and we do not have the power to do it ourselves, so they must remain sat there frozen in time forever. So there we go, mystery solved, and maybe of some interest to some of you Master System fans
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