Re: Weird.... Bally Space Duel?????

>Started working on one of my Space Duel projects tonight, and I found a
>curious thing.... a Bally factory sticker on the PCB, still said Atari too,
>but the board had a Bally sticker. Is this normal?? The game looks like
>it's never been opened before. Instruction manual bag never been opened,
>still had all the coin sticker/inserts, and the PCB still had those
>bubble-zip ties holding the connectors on. I was just curious if other
>Space Duels came with the Bally sticker.

At one point, I'm pretty sure Bally (as in Alladin's Castle) was a distributor
(or at least a lessor) for Atari.

Example: at the beginning of the season at Cedar Point, the semi
truck from Bally's Alladin's Castle would roll up, and we would unload
brand new Atari games from it. The games were leased, and the same
truck (from Chicago) would roll up at the end of the season and cart the
games off again. When there were serious board problems, the PCBs
would be sent off to Alladin's Castle for repair or replacement (this was
in the late 80's).

Alex
http://www.elektronforge.com
ayeckley@elektronforge.com

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Received on Wed Jun 7 22:09:13 2000