Peter Pack Rat

Which one of the following are we talking here?
1) an actual dedicated game?
2) a Peter Packrat kit in another system 1 cab like Road Blasters?
3) just the kit
 
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Sys1 are generic based sides that say atari. Made for kits...

I mean they are all kits in essence
 
What is the difference (i.e., how does one tell)? Honest question, as I was not aware.

There's a few ways I suppose.
A buddy and I picked up a system 1 cab recently that had Road Blasters in it. He immediately recognized that it was not a dedicated Road Blasters because it didn't have the two bolt holes in the piece of wood below the CP. there was no Atari Label still in the game to know what it was originally. When he started cleaning the dust off the monitor it had Road Runner burn on it (he was right). Like any game there should have originally been a sticker or back door sheet etc saying what it shipped as.

Most Peter Packrats, Road Runners and the rarer system 1 games are converted Road Blaster (at least from what I've seen). Several still have the pedal on them (or evidence of having a pedal at one time)

A dedicated Peter Pack rat is rare. Not very may shipped originally as that.
Anybody can put a kit in a system 1 cab, which is a different animal.

Sys1 are generic based sides that say atari. Made for kits...

I mean they are all kits in essence

No, there are absolutely dedicated machines. Although they were produced in a manner where you could swap the game out with the other kits.
Peter Packrat would be one of the rarest to have dedicated.
 
BTW, there are a couple different styles of Road Blasters CPs and they mount differently.
The original (dedicated) has two extra bolt holes in the wood below the CP. The kit does not. If it used to be a road blasters it will have those holes (unless they have been filled)
 
It is in an Atari System one cabinet. It has the gas pedal so obviously RB...


Which one of the following are we talking here?
1) an actual dedicated game?
2) a Peter Packrat kit in another system 1 cab like Road Blasters?
3) just the kit
 
Some people may not care and just want a system 1 cab to put their kits in and play all the different games. That said, I guarantee there are people that will pay a premium for a low production run dedicated machine (even if you can make a similar machine with a kit)
 
BTW, there are a couple different styles of Road Blasters CPs and they mount differently.
The original (dedicated) has two extra bolt holes in the wood below the CP. The kit does not. If it used to be a road blasters it will have those holes (unless they have been filled)


Good info.

This might be worthy of a dedicated thread (i.e., how to uniquely identify Sys1 cabs), if there are subtleties that tell what the cab originally shipped as.
 
It is in an Atari System one cabinet. It has the gas pedal so obviously RB...

Just my 2 cents.
The kit is north of 1k these days maybe more.
A nice Road Blaster can be had for $600-$800 pretty easy.
So put the two together and and your talking in the 2k range more or less depending on the condition.
 
Good info.

This might be worthy of a dedicated thread (i.e., how to uniquely identify Sys1 cabs), if there are subtleties that tell what the cab originally shipped as.

Agreed. I was really intrigued when my buddy was telling me the differences.
He was able to narrow the cab down to 2 games based on the bolt patterns and wound up being correct.
Pretty interesting.
 
There is\was a model number on the back of the cab to ID the original game.
Peter Packrat - 41500

For more info:
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=312868

Yeah, if I'm understanding that correctly the first three numbers are a set prefix that designates what game it is (or was).
That said, do the kits come with an ID sticker as well?
attachment.php

If so the sticker could be a little misleading as it could have been stuck on another cab and you might have to look at other aspects as well.

Anyhow, interesting stuff.
Is there a master list of what all the prefixes are?
I noticed they only had three of them in that thread.

Marble Madness - 453xx
Indiana Jones - 482xx
Peter Packrat - 415xx
Road Blaster - ???xx (guess I could check mine when I get back home)
Road Runner - ???xx
 
That wasthe only thread I noticed. When I first picked up my system 1 cab it had the Roadblasters kit in it and I was trying to figure out what came in the cab originally.

You raise a good point with the stickers with the model numbers for use with the kits. I looked at a Roadrunner manual and it indicates a "Product Identification Label" is included with the kit.

Definitely interesting stuff!
 
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