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Question from Anders: Hi, first of all I would like to salute the efforts you guys do. Know it is much appreciated from people from all over the world. Well, I write you because I am new to having my own arcade but have played since I was 5 years old and now I’m 33 years old from Denmark (Europe). I recently bought an old arcade made in 86 but refurbished in 94 with new wiring and games. It was converted in the late 90’s to a cocktail fruit machine but still has a game board in it called “Iron Horse”.

Now, I bought it just last week and have been trying to figure out what setup it uses. I already booked a technician to come by to fix the monitor, cables and setup donkey kong on it so I am out to buy wires and buttons and even a new panel so most can be changed. I am really having a hard time identifying what sort of cabinet I have so I can buy the right harness and wires etc. to set it up for Donkey Kong. That is why I write you guys. If you could help me identify what system I run. I really hope you can help. It would be much appreciated.

This is my first step into what will be my future arcade plans to make a lot of cabinets and setup games in them but this first one is for me and so I can start my Donkey Kong machine with a original pcb TKG-4-14 board from Nintendo. I really hope you guys would help me a bit just to identify what I got as the people I asked were bit clueless in that regard. I have attached 2 PDF files. The one called wires and game board has most of the detail. Hope to hear from you. Also, I am your supporter on Facebook 😉

Kind regards,
Anders

 

Attachment 1: COMPUGAME Cabinet
Attachment 2: Wires And Game Board

 

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Jonathan Leung Jonathan Leung Staff July 10, 2014
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Response from Jonathan: Anders,

Wow, I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a cabinet like this before. After doing some research, I did find a couple of links that might help you out.

Cabinet Flyer Link (the one on the left  looks pretty close to your cabinet): http://www.spille-maskiner.dk/kent/compugame_kabinet_lux1-2.jpg
DBA Forum Link: (seems to have a bit more information): http://www.dba.dk/compugame-cg-video/id-1008144498/
ColecoVision Project Link (looks like it had a Neo Geo board in it originally): http://www.colecovision.dk/old-arcadeproject-2.htm

If I had to guess, it looks like these were made to be generic arcade cabinets that you could pretty much throw any wiring harness/board in and play. Good news is that you should be able to rewire it with a Donkey Kong wiring harness/board and get it working pretty easily. I’m not sure if Iron Horse had a dedicated cabinet. It might have just come as a conversion kit that was meant for cabinets like this.

Hope that helps. Thank you for your question and good luck with your repair.

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