Explain this Missile Command Cabinet to me

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I found this photo of a Missile Command in a 1983 issue of Electronic Games Magazine. Is this a prototype cabinet? I've never seen one of these before. Sorry if this has already been discussed.

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Cool. thanks for the info. Just weird to see it in a 1983 mag since that game came out 3 years prior. Looks like the editorial staff just got lazy in searching for publicity photos.

Where did the above article come from?
 
Cool. thanks for the info. Just weird to see it in a 1983 mag since that game came out 3 years prior. Looks like the editorial staff just got lazy in searching for publicity photos.

Where did the above article come from?
Welcome... yeah, I've never seen a pic of the combo cab with the topper/header. Cool to see that.

Probably would have been neat... but mostly info overload.

Sorry, don't know the source of the article. Got it in another thread...
 
So who has the 5? Anyone here? Any pic's of the inside wiring? Does the software support any functionality of these lights?
 
I am very interested in this does anyone have one? I like to see some more picture of the inside

I remember watching on video on youtube from the designer of Missile Command, and he commented on how people were distracted from the screen to watch the lights flashing so they took it out of the final version which cut cost on the production of the Missile Command Cabinet.
 
I think I remember seeing one of these cabs at either Golfland or Malibu Gran Prix in Northern Cali. Not sure what happened to it from there though.
 

This was from the February 1983 issue of EG, page 14, for their National Vanity Board page. You can d/l a copy of the issue HERE

What magazine is the David Theurer interview from?
 
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Anyone know a game that had one of those three coin slot coin doors...and isn't that a little odd on a MC? Wonder why it was even considered?
 
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