Re: odd Asteroids side art

So as a side question, Did the asteroids that were stuffed in LL cabs at the factory
actually have LL sideart on them? What I was suggesting was that the LL cabs that they
stole in order to make the more popular Asteroids game, maybe had some other type of
sideart applied other than the default image.

Matthew Sell wrote:
>
> Definitely not LL side art.
>
> The cabinet date and the board date are the same on mine (1980), and the
> attraction screen does say "(c) 1979 Atari".
>
> Was the copyright message put in on later versions of the firmware? There
> were at least two revisions.
>
> - Matt
>
> At 04:57 PM 1/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Magiera, Joe (AIT) wrote:
> >>
> >> Check out this Asteroids on e-bay:
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=241225886
> >>
> >> Never saw one with this type of side art. Comments/explanations anyone?
> >
> >I've seen a Lunar Lander, this ain't a Lunar Lander.
> >
> >My guess is that it's one of the early versions of Asteroids. Observe the
> >copyright notice ("ASTEROIDS BY ATARI", not "(C)1979 ATARI") on the screen
> >shot.
> >
> >Later,
> >Doug.
> >
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