Flyback2021
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Did Electrocoin produce a manual for the Goliath ?
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You would have thought so with finding the Continental Midi manual but that's the mad thing, I've never got any with a Goliath or Centi I've bought or seen any
I asked Julian about Combat School and he remembers that game in the Goliath Cabs
Ah right, like Thunderblade Dlx then, that kinda still worked okay with sitting in Helicopter like position and movement of the stick twisted seat left or right but it would have been much better if they had done it on twisting left/right and tipped back/forward with motors and more of a sit inside cab
I'm sure i have a Goliath manual but the cab manuals I have I will have read many years ago then put them away and i cant get to them now with my chaotic storage situation.
They made many thousands of Goliaths across the mk1, mk2 and mk3's so you would think there would be absolutely loads of manuals knocking about yet you have two Electro Choice manuals and now that Continental manual and the production runs of those cabs will have been tiny with hardly any of those cabs left at all now!
Mad isn't it, I've got manuals for most of the Dedicated ones, Op Wolf, Thunderbolt, Chase HQ, Got Chase HQ DX and Top Speed, Gang Hunters but never seen any for the jamma cabs. Also got an Electrocoin Parts manual for Taito stuff, its mainly Controller stuff
It's Cains Amusements Herne Bay, Kent (the one where all the George Wilson photos came from). There are loads of photo's from the early 80s taken across a couple of years but only a few from the late 80s. The VR arcade was based on the late 80s early 90s.
I'm sure I've got a Xenon one too or am I imagining it?
I've a got a Taito parts one too, is it this one?
Flyback2021
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Exactly ! I wondered why considering the amount of Goliaths made that I haven’t come across a manual before ? Anyway, keen to find one as have a project cabinet to look at next year. What .
I have picked up the following Electrocoin manuals recently -
Spectrum , unigame ,mvs , Barline, electrochoice and continental midi (courtesy of @Bods) .
Don’t ever remember playing on a playzass but have the capcom adaptor with instructions s sheet and a marquee now.
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Nice collection that. I've not seen one for the Playzass before. I could have bought one of those cabs for £300 but didn't have the space at the time. Nice looking cabs they are.
I wish I could remember which manuals I have, I'd have to take a day off work to try and find mine.
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Would like to see one in the flesh. Nice manual has all the parts replacement sheets at the back. I picked the adaptor up ages ago and didn’t realise Electrocoin had made a cabinet for it specifically.
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This is definitely one of my favourite examples of how good the screen printing company Electrocoin used were!
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https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/electrocoin-centi-dedicated-street-fighter.74174/
Is this the same cab as in the video screen shot, bolt heads in cash box door, if it is the coin door replaced too with central single coin slot which is odd, why was the marquee replaced also?
Oh yeah same 5 bolts good spot! May just be a coincidence though as the one in the vid doesn't even have the correct control panel and as you say diff coin door, although the cp may have been put back on and coin door changed at a later date so it's possible it's the same one.
As for the marquee, this cab did have the original marquee in it. He must have got a repro made that he felt looked better than the Electrocoin one with the large instruction panel? Here's a pic before he refurbed it.
That's pretty cool!