>> Would like to see how the control panel looked. Did it have just a joystick? How did they hide the bet buttons? Just curious.
> My best guess is that has a real joystick with 2-3 buttons to play the real game (the game boots on front game). > > Just use the joystick directions + the buttons to also control the gambling game.
From some games I remember (none of them are in MAME yet because hidden game was poker instead of cherry) : the cabinet is a basic one with 1 joystick, 1 player button and 2 start buttons ; then you had to perform a specific special trick in the "crappy" arcade game to switch to the poker game; the only way to go back to the arcade game was to reset the cabinet with a manual external switch, and if you wanted to reset the credits, you had to press a button which was located in or near the front door (where you insert the coins) ...
Steph from The Ultimate Patchers
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