Re: odd Asteroids side art

that game was like(if not the one) sold at the san jose auction around xmas. A operator
friend of mine thought it might have been a sticker sold to cover damaged sides.

All the asteroids that were originally lunar landers that I have noticed have had lunar
lander side art. Although its possible atari was selling the side art for a lunar lander
to asteroids kit(Like they were doing for the tempest to MH kit), I sort of doubt it. If
people have noticed the MH side art stickers have come in both the black trim and white
trim variety.

Jess Askey wrote:

> 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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