Ultra rare Nintendo Sheriff Cocktail Cab shows up.

[zapiy]

[align=center:33i4ulba][size=120]Nintendo Sheriff 1979 by Shigeru Miyamoto[/size]



Alex, aka Chuckie Egg on UKVaC forums has a stunning collection of arcade cabs, He not only owns the Upright version of this machine but now he is the proud owner of the Cocktail Cab.. (both seen in the above flyer)

Alex has kindly sent me some images that i will be using for the arcade area of RVG but i wanted to share this here now.



Alex standing proud next to both his Sheriff machines.

The story of how this came to be....

Then at the beginning of this week a good friend muddymusic contacted me about a sheriff that had appeared on ebay under the title (Rare retro sega arcade machine),
As soon as I looked at it I knew straight away what it was and I brought it with no hesitation.
This cab came up 5 years ago on ebay & I remember seeing it but never realised how rare it really was until I started my own Nintendo arcade collection.
Ever since then ive been looking out for it.
Its actually rarer than my upright and its a Japanese version.
Until now all we had to go on was a picture on a  flyer which is not very accurate because the picture of the sheriff upright is wrong as there is no speaker grill.
So when you compare the picture with the machine certain  things don't add up.
Like the colour and the control panel and because they listed it as sega made me think this wasn't a Nintendo machine.
But ive done my research and with the help from Erik Voskuil and Florent Gorges who have written books about the history of Nintendo & Before Mario all concur that in the early days before Nintendo really had there own arcade games they got Sega to distribute some of there early games.
So I travelled 5 hours to Lancashire from Twickenham London to pick up this cab I could not wait to see what it was, Sega or Nintendo.
I was blown away by how cool this machine looked, the control panel looks mint and the cabinet is in amazing condition for its age. Even though its got a built in ash try with some cigarettes left in it I don't think this has ever been in  arcade its beautiful.
So inside its got an original Nintendo logic board and sound board just like my upright version but it looks like it been modified for this particular monitor which has NS and sega enterprise written on it.
On all my other cocktails Nintendo use sanyo so maybe if you have an early sega game you might be able to recognise it.

Muddymusic is another member on the UKVaC forums, a site i often frequent and shows the great community effect in action.. Much like here at RVG. [/align:33i4ulba]

[onthinice]

Really neat back-story. Glad it has found a nice home.

[zapiy]

Yeah I love the whole story and to see it end up with such a decent guy is even better.

[TrekMD]

That's cool.  Was this game ever ported to home systems?

[zapiy]

I don't believe so fella.. real shame..

[Vadergb]

Alex has an unbelievable Nintendo arcade collection. If you was at Play Expo a few years ago he had a row of Ninty cabs running DK, DK2 and Popeye (I think).

[zapiy]

Yeah he sure does and a nice guy to boot.