Major Havoc metal cp - two versions?

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I am working on a MH project right now and came across this little tid-bit. The first picture is of two dedicate MH games, notice the button positioning. The second picture is a dedicated MH cp that has an obvious button position variation. Did Atari change up the position? Is the metal panel an early proto type? While the metal has been hacked a bit, the button holes are original to the panel. MH owners please chime in on which variation you have. Close or wide.

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I was told via PM that the wide or spaced out button version is likely an early production. The close button spacing is more common. But looking at the Phoenix Arcade artwork offering leads me to believe the opposite. Anyone?
 
In the 2nd pic, it doesn't even look like there would be enough room for two button bezels that close together....


....so tell us more about the MH project? Did you pick up a dedicated machine for yourself?
 
...I didn't even think about the button bezels, I'll have to check. I got my message inverted earlier. The spaced out buttons is the common version, the close button config has only been seen once or twice before. I guess an early version or perhaps remnants of the prototype? I dunno. Not my panel, I'm just borrowing it.

As for the MH project, I'm making a MH cabaret. I'm a LOT farther along than this, actually ready for artwork but this is the only pic I could find. Yes I did fit the tube in horizontally.
 

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As for the MH project, I'm making a MH cabaret. I'm a LOT farther along than this, actually ready for artwork but this is the only pic I could find. Yes I did fit the tube in horizontally.

Major Havoc cabaret! That is a cool idea. Are you going to follow the other Atari cabarets with the woodgrain sides or are you going to make it look more like a miniature MH, i.e. black with perhaps some scaled MH artwork from Rich at TOG? Any more links to share?
 
Mine is the wider spaced version which matches the phoenix overlay. I'm not quite on board with the earlier production numbers having a closer location since there were so few of these made that by the the time an employee returned from the assembly line from taking a nice long shit, the production was over. Prototype theory? That i can believe.

BTW, i have what is possibly the last machine produced #299 does anybody have a number higher?
 
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My MH cabaret will have custom artwork from TOG, the repro roller, a repro atari cp all installed in a repro centipede cabaret made by dptwiz. No more links yet.
 
I was informed that the panel I'm working with comes from MH no. 000005

(not sure if I put too many zeros, but you get the idea)
 
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