Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Made me feel right at home
A bit of history on the cabinet since Gyruss asked about it: the previous owner was importing cars from the USA and had a bit of space left in the container and decided to fill it up with this cab. He is a collector of mostly pinball-machines (really old ones) but he had some nice arcade-stuff like an original DK and a nice cocktail-pacman. He doesn't play the games himself, judging by the highscores
and also he told me so, he just likes to collect original classics. After looking inside and outside and comparing the cabinet with the pics and stories found on this forum and other sites, I thought it looked pretty real. Also the seller could, in my opinion be trusted and seemed to know a lot about the cabinets himself (otherwise he woudn't be much of a collector).
But after reading Level42's remark about the speaker I got a bit scared. Could it be that it is not an original?
Everything from the manual that should be there, is there. The serialnumber and plate are there. Comparing it to to pics from the net, I saw what I think might have been why Level42 sees something strange. On the pics you can see there is a white molding above the speaker, soething that is missing on my cabinet. That would explain why it looks like the speaker is lower.
And Ataritoobin is right too, it was built in the US.
Btw, I live in Breda. Saw a member from Roosendaal and one from Breda here already. Brabant is being well represented
The bulk buy sounds interesting, Darthnuno. Only problem is that, as I said, I am useless when it comes to working with my hands so the machine needs to be in good condition and from reading all the stories here, they are very hard to come by. But if there is a Donkey Kong (my holy grail too, CKong!) it really doesn't matter how bad it looks as long as it works.
