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This is an interesting game. It started its life as a Stern/Konami Scramble, which is a bonafide classic. Possibly Stern's biggest hit (although I like some of their more obscure titles better). But it was converted to some kind of gambling machine at some point. It could be taken back with some effort and parts.
However, the gambling machine it was converted to is actually better than most. Most gambling video games (in my opinion) are rather one-dimensional and not very fun for long. This one has four different gambling games to play though, and they are all pretty well done. You can see me demonstrate three of them in the video above. There is:
Poker (5 card stud)
Acey-Duecy
Dice
Blackjack
All of them use the same betting system, where you bet however many chips (or credits, which come from quarters inserted). Then you win different amounts based on the odds of the individual game you play. After winning, you can take the winnings or attempt to double up, like many gambling machines do.
I'm not very well versed in the different gambling machines that have come out, having never operated one in my life, nor ever even playing one in an establishment. My only exposure is briefly power up a few that I bought just to steal the monitors out of and then burn. So I don't have much experience, but the little experience I have tells me that this one is a lot more fun and worth having then all the others I've stripped and burned.
The cabinet is pretty solid and doesn't appear to have gotten wet on bottom or been exposed to water anywhere. It's a good cabinet. The Scramble artwork appears to still be underneath the paint on the outside of the cabinet. Perhaps if you're good with citristrip, you might be able to get this funky paint job off without ruining the scramble art underneath. I'm not good enough to pull that off. Or you could just buy new Scramble art and apply it. And you could just buy a scramble marquee, bezel, and CPO, then wire the cabinet with a JAMMA harness and throw a 60 in 1 board in it (set to play only scramble if you want to keep it a scramble, or just allow all 60 games and have yourself a multigame). I was actually planning to do that myself, but again, I just don't have time to enact all these plans I have and I don't have any employees to delegate such a task to.
Please note: Sometimes in the pictures above (and even sometimes in the video), the monitor looks like it isn't displaying correctly. However, that is only because the shutter speed is too fast on my phone camera. So it captures the picture while the monitor is drawing the screen and looks like half the screen is missing. Usually this is not as bad in videos, so watch the video included above and you should be able to see that the monitor has a great picture (although sometimes it looks funny even in videos). You are just going to have to trust me that, unless I specifically mention it above, the picture is good on this monitor in real life.
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