HEIGHT: 1840mm (72 1/2")
WIDTH: 644mm (25 3/8")
DEPTH: 830mm (32 3/4")
THE MK1
This was the first Goliath model to be produced, seen on the right with Exerion installed and Electrocoin girl posing with it, she likes her cabinets BIG!. Measurements of the Goliath cabinet can be found at the top of this page. The MK1 cab had an angled monitor glass with nice bright glittery artwork, behind which was a 20" monitor that could be rotated, but with slight difficulty, and was more of a job for a technician. The control panel was smaller than later Goliath cabinets and was about 4" deep. The control panel also had the 'spotty stripe' artwork on the top of it to match the rest of the cabinet. 'ELECTROCOIN' could always be quite clearly seen across the front of the control panel. The joystick on the Mk1 was always generally a red ball top joystick with metal shaft. I am unsure of control panel configuration during manufacture but most games of the time would have required only one joystick as seen in the picture, plus one joystick seems to match up with the control panel artwork a lot better than two would. Buttons for both left and right handed players. PCB's were mounted through the rear of the cabinet, and a decent sized lockable door is on the rear of each cabinet. There was a PCB holder screwed to the inside of the cabinet to make things a little easier. The artwork on the front kick board was later altered for the Mk2 Goliath, the top section of the artwork and the two corners were removed. The sideart was vinyl stickered. This could easily be pulled off if it got tatty, and left black or replaced with NOS sideart. The speakers were above the monitor pointed downwards behind the marquee. This made for a great playing experience as the sound was literally in your face. Also the Mk1 was produced before the advent of JAMMA and therefore the connector inside this machine was always to suit the game installed so any other manufacture of PCB would have needed a convertor. Overall this is a classy looking video cabinet.
THE MK2
THE MK3
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This cabinet is a kind of go-between during Electrocoins development of the
Goliath and I can't help but wonder that maybe it all went pear shaped a
little here. The monitor glass was made completely vertical rather than angled
and the artwork on the monitor glass remained the same. A whole new control panel
was added which was a lot deeper at around 6" instead of what used to be 4". The
old sideart remained which caused a bit of a problem as the area around the control
panel was still designed around the old 4" deep panel.
The sideart was still stickered but this problem wasn't put right until the Mk3 cabinet
was brought out. The kick-board artwork was altered and the top bar and two corners that
were previously on the Universal Mk1 were now missing. The control panel no longer had
the 'spotty stripe' artwork on it and was instead covered in a shiny vinyl with a red,
white and blue bar pattern on it. The joystick was now generally always black plastic
(including shaft) and red ball top joysticks were no longer used except in special circumstances.
Buttons on the control panel were for left and right handed players as usual. The Mk2 once again
was being sold in a time before the advent of JAMMA and therefore the internal
connector in these machines would have been to suit the game installed. A connector would have
been required for PCB's of different manufacture. The PCB's were mounted from the
rear through a lockable door similar to the Mk1 and there was a PCB holder screwed up
inside the cabinet to make things a little easier.
Electrocoin really went to work on the Goliath Mk3 cabinet and the results saw
sales soar throughout the 80's. The main changes to the cabinet over the Mk2
were firstly the introduction of a front loading pcb shelf which is accessed via
the drop down control panel. The sides of the cabinet were no longer stickered
and the artwork was screened. The sideart now also matched up with the 6 inch depth
control panel whereas with the Mk2 it seemed as though Electrocoin had overlooked
it. The monitor glass artwork was basically the same however had a new colour scheme
which was not quite a bright and glittery as it was with the Mk2. The normal back door
on the Mk2 was replaced with a little door that
was screwed into place and had no lock. The back of this door also had a metal plate
attached to it which once in place, held down the cherry switch for the power located at the
rear of the pcb shelf. By far the biggest change of this cabinet over the Mk2 was the
introduction of the 'wooden wheel' monitor rotation system which was a stroke of
genius. This allowed operators to install games of both vertical and horizontal
orientation into the same machine and easily rotate the monitor to suit. Control Panels
came with whatever arrangement of buttons and joysticks the operator had asked for,
however most examples of Goliaths today are 2 player and 3 buttons each. The Goliath
in the picture is a single joystick with 3 buttons to each side for left
or right handed players, which are in red green and blue (the standard colours used).
The joysticks are all plastic and red in colour. The control panel was also designed
to accommodate 4 player start buttons but Goliaths are rarely seen with more than two.
The monitor remained the same size at 20", and was still removable through the front
of the cabinet whilst still attached to the wooden wheel. The marquee lighting and
speaker arrangement was pretty much the same. There were other subtle little changes
that were made, little things like the main on/off switch on the top of the machine
that was now fitted with a plastic rocker switch of a more modern design. Also, most
Mk3's are JAMMA but be warned as some are not. Out of those that are not, there are those
that are easily spotted but others may fool collectors into thinking they are JAMMA when
in fact they are really UNIGAME, which is very similar to JAMMA but NOT the same.