atari basketball monitor bezel color?

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i picked up an atari basketball yesterday (pic 1) and when i was "browsing" through the "encyclopedia of arcade video games" i realized that the atari basketball depicted there (on page 71 btw) is shown with a colorful cardboard bezel (pic 2) with different colors than all of the atari basketballs i have seen so far.

i'm just curious: is that some kind of prototype cardboard bezel or does anyone around here have (or has seen) a cardboard like that?
 

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That's a good question.

I've only played Basketball once, and the machine looked exactly like yours (on the left), including that same not-as-colorful bezel. Fun to play!
 
All the ones I've seen including the one I own look like yours. The only place I've seen the color bezel is on the flyer. So I'm thinking it must have been a prototype. I do really like the look of it. It makes it look like the fans are in a stadium more than the production version does.
 
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