You are making me blush.
Check out these first two shots of the Rampage cab sitting on a home made riser. You can see why I want to decorate this one as the sides are a bit plain. As soon as I found the kit, I knew I wanted to decorate this one as Joust, my favorite game emulation on this cab. Rampage is pretty cool and looks and plays just like it should with the three sets of controls on the control panel. Defender looks and sounds good but the rampage control configuration ruins it and you never have a sense of the arcade controls which are difficult and spread out anyways. Gauntlet looks and sounds pretty good although it’s only a two player port. There was a two player arcade version but I remember the squat four player version which was a blast to play when it was filled up.
It’s unfortunate they couldn’t have ported the four player version, at least so you could fill the three sticks on this cab with players.
Then, there is Joust, another Williams classic that is a true port of the arcade classic and plays wonderfully with either one or two players onscreen simultaneously.
This was a Gen 1 cab from Arcade1Up released in 2018
Perhaps an afterthought compared to the bigger names that were released with this first Generation, this cab has reached a new popularity amongst the collectors of these machines and Rampage, new in its box, would easily fetch 3 times or more as much as I paid for it.
Among other new cabs hitting this spring is this new Atari legacy 12-in 1 which should nicely demote both my custom Tempest cab and my gen1 12-in-1 except for the fact that In these shots, the 17” monitor appears to be oriented vertically which would work well for both Tempest and Centipede but not some Of the other included games. I doubt the new factory spinner would top my aftermarket one.
That coin door is just a sticker but some of the other cabs released this spring, like x-men, will include a more realistic faux plastic coin door
I would like to put that decorated riser under my Custom Tempest cab
