Playing with something between your legs : cocktail tables

[Retroman839]

I’m fiximg
Up another cocktail table and it just got me thinking …

Side joystick position , genius? or given the choice would you choose to have the joystick On a horizontal pannel ?

 

[stevebm1]

I think the reason they were designed like that was so that people did not spill drinks into them,most of the times I saw them in pubs in the early 80's they always had a couple of pints and an ashtray on top of them

 

[Retroman839]

I think the reason they were designed like that was so that people did not spill drinks into them,most of the times I saw them in pubs in the early 80's they always had a couple of pints and an ashtray on top of them

Excellent point !
I guess a lot of pubs had these size tables. So they mimicked them in their design.

 

[eccentric-nut]

The local sports and social club was the only place I ever really experienced cocktail tables in the wild back in the day, and they were most certainly used for beers to be placed on, so it makes total sense the glass top was to stop spillages, however the other really cool feature of the cocktail table was how you could sit opposite each other comfortably on small bar stools and the screen would flip to face you when playing a two player game, this was really living in the future when I was a youngster.

 

[Retroman839]

Guerrilla war was one of my earliest arcade game experiences. cocktail ver.

Só the water proofing of the cabinets was really the driving influence. Understandable for exploding crt’s from liquids wouls have not been good at all! F355 I picked up was only not working due to fizzy drink in the psu !