Asteroids Silver or Black cones?

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So whats the deal are they supposed to be silver? Mine has black and I've seen about 50 - 50 split for black and aluminum.

The manual I found said silver
 
I always thought the international ones were silver including the coin door and the USA ones were black, incl coin door. Mine is an LAI make, and is silver

Same as the lunar lander thruster handle also, mine is silver, some are black
 
Mine are Silver, what about Missile Command? What others had the Silver cones?
 
My Asteroids cabaret had original black plastic.

I replaced them with aluminium silver when I restored it.
 
It would be nice to have a database with info on the Atari games - game #, AR2 type, power brick #, switch bezel type, long/short buttons, coin box type, etc.. Some of this info is out there, like the AR2 stuff, but there's a lot of info that would be nice to reference. No, I'm not volunteering to do it, but I'd help.
 
My upright Missile Command has black starts buttons, cabaret has silver (US cabs)

My Irish MC cabaret had silver too.

My MC cabaret has its original start buttons, and they are black.

I'm guessing there isn't all that much rhyme or reason to this; it was probably whatever was in stock...
 
So this is not helping ;>

Who has some NIB ones or got one that was an upgright

manual I have does say aluminum -- but I see so many black ones maybe they didn't stick to it
 
Here's my take (and I've had dozens of Asteroids over the years):

Early games had black anodized aluminum cones that either wore off and looked silver, or were plain silver to begin with, it seemed to vary with the day of manufacture. If your machine is serial #18,900 or less, than aluminum cones *could* be correct.

Later games (18,901-77,000-whatever) had black short plastic cones. I've never seen silver, or even worn black anodized aluminum cones on a later model original Asteroids; always plastic.

If you really want your restoration to be correct, take that info for what it's worth, but don't forget to include the following for your < 18,900 numbered machine: yellow text on the bezel, copyright sticker on the monitor, early ROM revision with bug, owl eye coin door.....
 
So anyone that has a manual can you see if they ever call for black? The one I have says silver -- just curious if some rev finally calls for black.

I can't find the serial number on mine no sticker...

There is a white stripe (look like white out) on the back with a red stamped number I can't read -- This same treatment is on the monitors and circiut boards -- so I'll have to see if any match...

I'm guessing that might be the serial number?
 
My 'stroids:

S/N 1847
yellow text on bezel
owl-eye coin door
PCB rev -02
...silver cones.
 
So anyone that has a manual can you see if they ever call for black? The one I have says silver -- just curious if some rev finally calls for black.

I can't find the serial number on mine no sticker...

There is a white stripe (look like white out) on the back with a red stamped number I can't read -- This same treatment is on the monitors and circiut boards -- so I'll have to see if any match...

I'm guessing that might be the serial number?

So my monitor and AR board both have F2150 stamped on them in red in a white paint stripe
the PCB says A1010

is 2150 my Serial number?

No owl eye door no white border art no LL art

manual inside said foruth printing

So I doubt this is an earlier model
 
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