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The practice of
recycling
non-functional or low producing
arcade
games
.
Manufacturer
s or arcade companies
stripped
off the
external
graphics
from the cabinets and removed the main logic boards. Most of the manufacturers used a relatively standard cabinet configuration and similar electrical connector types. New graphics were applied to the cabinet exterior and new clear graphics were applied over the marquis and screen glass. A new mainboard was installed, and the arcade game was reissued. Some manufacturers that had similar board types only required replacing the
ROM
chips. When I was a wee lad, I wondered why some of the latest hot games were appearing in beat-up cabinets with cigarette burns. It turned out that the cabinet had been
stripped and chipped
. Another clue that an arcade game was recycled was if it had a
screen burn
of another game on the
monitor
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