I often see a number of terms pop up when people are describing certain machines that are related to one another in some way. Clone, rebuild, reglass, conversion etc. I'm just wondering whether someone could explain the difference between them?
The way I understand it, a clone would be a machine that has substantially the same gameplay/programming as an earlier release by the same manufacturer, but differs in artwork and sound package, perhaps? Or perhaps a clone would be a sort-of 'knock-off', taking a popular brand of machine, tweaking the name but keeping everything else very similar.
Whereas a rebuild is a machine that has different gameplay/programming, sounds and artwork but is housed in a cabinet recycled from a different game and is running on the same tech. If I had to guess at reglass, I'd assume that would be a machine kept exactly the same except for a change of artwork, so the art and bulbs might be moved around but it's exactly the same machine in a different guise. I'm not sure what a conversion is, I'm imagining it's possibly another word for clone or rebuild. So much for my uneducated guesses anyway. There are a couple more terms I've heard but the minute I sat down to ask about them, I've bloody forgotten them
Sorry for the basic questions, I'm probably missing something obvious, but I did have a search around and I couldn't find these descriptions explained anywhere.
Cheers,
Matt