While I've had a basic grasp of Nintendo's DK history, my understanding and curiosity has grown greatly after reading (and following up on some items covered in) David Sheff's Game Over book, along with Jeff Ryan's Super Mario (great books, in particular Sheff's, which intersects well with Blake Harris' Console Wars, and it's fun reading NCL/NOA history from the '90s perspective, but I digress...)
It's my understanding there were 3,000 Radar Scope cabinets (2,000 that shipped to NOA, and 1,000 that sat at NCL), of which the vast majority were converted to DK. Immediately following the DK "we have a hit on our hands" moment around 4,000 blue cabinets were produced in Japan, and shipped to NOA.
My blue cab, serial 2997... did they start a new serial numbering at 0 when the second (and first blue) batch shipped from Japan, or is cabinet possibility one of the 1,000 they hadn't shipped yet, and color was changed in factory? How do you (by model and serial) ascertain whether a cabinet is a Radar Scope convert, or "first blue batch"?
It's my understanding there were 3,000 Radar Scope cabinets (2,000 that shipped to NOA, and 1,000 that sat at NCL), of which the vast majority were converted to DK. Immediately following the DK "we have a hit on our hands" moment around 4,000 blue cabinets were produced in Japan, and shipped to NOA.
My blue cab, serial 2997... did they start a new serial numbering at 0 when the second (and first blue) batch shipped from Japan, or is cabinet possibility one of the 1,000 they hadn't shipped yet, and color was changed in factory? How do you (by model and serial) ascertain whether a cabinet is a Radar Scope convert, or "first blue batch"?
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