When Sega launched the Astro City Candy cabinet they gave it a modular control panel to make swapping the panel as easy as swapping the the game board. They continued using this control panel Design up through the New Net City and many cabinets in between.
Some of their competitors’ cabinets are even compatible with these panels including the Taito Egret II and 3 as well as the Taito Vewlix and the Delta 32, among others.
Here is a list of all of the officially released panels that I’ve been able to find in this style. If you know of others please send me a photo and I’ll add it to the list.
1 Player Joystick Panels
They also made a Sega Lindbergh Variant of this Panel
The art on this panel is awesome, the pictures don’t do it justice
Namco Actually distributed Tekken 5 in Net City cabinets with dedicated art.
If you have a better image of this panel please send it to me.
If you have a good image of the Sega variant of this panel please send it to me
This is one of my personal favorites, the Subway map art looks great, unfortunately these were on European cabs and the factory print quality is terrible.
This is my all time favorite 1P panel art
This machine was used just to manage player cards without tying up a Virtual On gameplay seat.
Note the weird design where 2 buttons are used for movement and a joystick is used for attack in 8-directions
2 Player Joystick Panels
Note the metal flap in the center that allows use of Dreamcast Controllers
Part Number: CQN-2000 (Full Assembly) / CQN-2001 (Panel Only)
This was the original Panel that shipped with the Astro City and New Astro City Cabinets
Part Number: SAC-2000 (Full Assembly) / SAC-2001 (Panel Only)
Nearly identical to CQN-2000 except button 3 has been moved to below button 1 This is due to the Astro City II being designed around Virtua Fighter and this button placement is more amicable to that game.
This was a whole control panel unit for the Sega Saturn modeled after the Astro City Control panel housing and featuring 8 buttons per player
Part Number HOT-2003
Part Number HOT-20003 (fully assembly) / HOT2006 (panel only)
This was the default panel that shipped with the Blast City
Part Number: OOM-8-A6BS-H (still in production as of 2021)
This panel is almost like a 2P variant of the Versus City Panel
Only sold as an overlay (part number NOU-2001). Likely made for a New Naomi Universal cab (the Euro version of the NNC), that never came to market. (Thank you nem for the information)
This was for the USA and EU Market. I don’t believe it was ever shipped installed but rather as an overlay as part of a kit. Interestingly the buttons don’t seem to line up with any other official panel so it’s unclear which panel this artwork was intended to go over.
Analog Joystick Panels
Analog Joysticks and speed sensitive kick buttons. As this is a 4-player game I wonder if there is a matching “Player 3 / Player 4” version of this panel
Joystick shaped like a banana, uses a unique stick with very little dead-zone and an inverter board
Despite the lack of markings this panel was only ever used for this game.
This is the same panel as the JP/World market version with game specific artwork, found on the Dedicated Zombie Revenge cabinets sold in the USA.
This is a really interesting panel the joysticks are both Analog and Digital Simultaneously and have PCBs featuring Nintendo 64 Controller ICs. all buttons are routed through these PCBs and it connects to an Aleck64 Mobo with only 3 wires per player.
Trackball and Spinner Panels
I’ve seen a 1P version of this panel as well but I don’t currently have a picture of it.
It’s unknown if a 1P variant exists
This includes a JVS Trackball IO on the back of the panel
Identical to the Dynamic Golf Panel but for English markets instead of Japanese
This features an 8-way Trigger stick like the one used on Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, and also has an integrated JVS Trackball IO on the back of the Panel
It’s unknown if a 1P variant exists
Despite having artwork similar to the Egret II this panel is actually shaped for Sega cabs. As you can see above it’s installed into an Egret panel and there are gaps. This was most likely done to make it cross compatible across many cabinet types.
Buttons Only Panels
There is an official Super Bishi Bashi Champ panel also but I do not have a picture of it. Gameplay buttons also illuminate
Part Number: RM-1BS-H (Still in production as of 2021)
If anyone has a photo of the Sega Variant of this please let me know
Baseball Panels
World Series Baseball (2001) is the English version of Super Major League (2001)
Blank Panels
These are more of a control panel placeholder since it is installed a cab with a gun pedestal or for a game with touch screen controls.
Fishing Panels
Twin Stick Panels
Despite the version specificity (it is explicitly called out in the artwork) this is the only official candy panel made for VOOT
This was a one off prototype but the panel does confirm to Sega Panel Specs.
this came after the prototype, as you can see it more closely matches the final design
Obviously this is a complete console controller but the panel confirms to the Sega Panel spec and can be used in-cab
Part Number: VDC-18-c 18 (Still in production as of 2021)
Other Panels/Oddballs
There is another variant of this that is a whole control panel housing replacement, this one is interesting as it’s a compact panel only variant.
Known Missing Panels:
Here is a list of all the panels that I know exist but I was unable to find a clear picture of:
1P:
Additional Variations of the Sega Astro City Panels
Additional Variations of the Sega Blast City Panels
2P:
Additional Variations of the Sega Astro City Panels
Additional Variations of the Sega Blast City Panels
Virtua Striker 2002
1L6B Megalo 410 Panel
Tecmo Versus City Panel
Tecmo Astro City Panel
Analog:
World Kicks Player 3/4 Panel
Trackball/Spinner:
Incredible Technologies World Class Bowling 1P
Buttons Only:
Official Sega Astro City Quiz
Konami Super Bishi Bashi Champ
Blank:
The Maze of the King
Nippon Television! Future Prediction Studio
Touch De Uno
Updated with a bunch of new panels and reorganized.
Thank you to Kevin, Johnny, Clint, nem, Everten, and Alberto for helping hunt down more panels for the list.
Updated to include Banapass 1P panel (thank you Alberto) and USA Zombie Revenge Panel (thank you William Davidson).
Updated to include 1P Virtua Striker 4 Panel and Touch De Uno 2 Panel, as well as some new items on the missing list thanks to Frédéric