My quest to recreate Street Fighters longlost pneumatic controls

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  • And I knew exactly which one I wanted: the SF1 deluxe cabinet.Overall, I knew SF1 was a mediocre game, but its deluxe cabinet was amazing.
  • This is the stock photo from KLOV/VAPS and was one of the few images of the pneumatic machine available during my initial research.KLOVRumor had it that there was this fighting video game, like Karate Champ, except the harder you hit the buttons, the stronger your attacks were.
  • This cabinet is now often called the "deluxe" or "crescent" cab, and the pressure-sensitive buttons are often called "bash pads" or "pneumatic buttons."
  • It also had a large monitor and a control panel to accommodate most games I’d be interested in playing, so I began searching for an SF1 deluxe cabinet with the misguided intention of converting it into a MAME machine.Time passed.
  • For me and many folks, Street Fighter was just a pretty cool game that was most useful for video game trivia.That is until Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SF2) was released in 1991.
  • In my local arcade, it consisted of a large, curvy cabinet with two sets of controls to accommodate two players at once.
Enlarge/ Slam that bash pad!3 with A blurry picture of the SF1 Deluxe Arcade Cabinet. This is the stock photo from KLOV/VAPS and was one of the few images of the pneumatic machine available durin [+4350 chars]