Sure it is, and if you had enough of the "shareware" releases you'd have the full retail version of all the tables - wait, that doesn't make it shareware.
I'm pretty sure Jill of the Jungle, Kiloblaster, and a few more series were eventually sold at retail the same way - as single episodes. As you installed them all into the same directory they would become available from the launch menu. Buying a standalone boxed copy of the first episodes in those series (same with Android / Super Android) would be in effect "buying shareware" without the shareware screens. "Buy the other episodes / parts" is nothing new with software of that era, as I'm sure you know. However the only table that was ever freely distributed as Shareware was Android / Super Android.
FREE. Off of Craigslist
It's a complete mess of wires inside, but the cabinet is pretty solid. But it has a working JAMMA PCB and a monitor (which may or may not work).
Haven't done this in a while. Here is what I found this weekend. Atari 7800 with 23 games most Atari 2600. Lots of joysticks, paddles and a cart holder all for $20 from local flea market.
I also found a complete gamecube Mario Party 7 from same flea market for $10. Now I just need Mario party 5 to complete my Gamecube Mario Party collection.
It's weird, because the last machine I picked up was another JAMMA-tized Super Pac-Man. I am in the process of converting the exterior of that one back to a Super Pac-Man... which means a complete repainting by hand of all the lettering and logos. I put a multiboard in it, which includes Super Pac-Man.
Since I will have left over paint from my current project, I may as well try and do the same to this one. I'll probably re-mount the monitor vertically and put another multi-board in it, and sell this one.
Repainting the cab without stencils is really time consuming, so it'll be a while before I start on this one. But Super Pac-Man has a unique cabinet, that I'd like to preserve. I've been working on my current one for about 2 months now, but it's starting to look good.
Here's a flickr set dedicated to my current project, which will give you an idea of where I'm heading with my Free Cabinet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhanlen...7622516605766/
And here's more pictures of the one I picked up yesterday... I really have my work cut out, as the interior is a rats nest of hacked wiring.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhanlen...7622763668802/