Arcade Operator Barn Raid - Part 2

In the second location there was a cluster of cabs, fruit machines and eighties jukeboxes.

At the back was a beast of a cab, a Deluxe Showcase 33” Primal Rage cab.

The Primal Rage control panel.  Apparently the cab was working when it came off site.  However due to its sheer size I had to leave this one behind.

This flyer shows how the cab should look.

The Cosmic Invasion looked interesting, but unfortunately wasn’t for sale.

These Pole Position II cabs are like buses!  I picked one up on my last Raid, but it was missing the original monitor. 

Cosmetically it doesn’t look quite as nice as the other one, but it’s still pretty tidy and it's complete. 

My pile of pick ups.

Here is a better look at the Taito Space Invaders bezel.

The bezel has proved to be a bit of a mystery, with some intriguing differences between this and the regular Taito Space Invaders bezel.  The ‘Space Invaders’ typography, and the art is very different.  The clear section of the bezel is portrait instead of landscape.  This suggests it was used directly over a screen, like some of the Part II’s rather than in front of a reflected image.  Also Taito Space Invaders, including Deluxe and Part II always had the player one and two buttons positioned horizontally.  The bezel here indicates that they were positioned vertically.  One possibility is that it was fitted to later, smaller midi sized upright Taito UK cabinets.  Another possibility is that it was created for a bootleg machine.

The boot loaded up with PCB’s.

And back for more.

The cabs gathered together, ready for loading on the van. 

Whilst loading the cabs, we had another visit from the dog.  The dog was extremely curious about what was going on, but fortunately my wife was there this time to distract him (or her).

Mission Complete!