POLL: Do you own all Atari Vectors?

Do you own ALL Atari Vectors (in dedicated cabinets)?


  • Total voters
    71
1. Asteroids
2. Asteroids Deluxe
3. Battlezone
4. Black Widow
5. Gravitar
6. Major Havoc tempest conversion
7. Space Duel
8. Tempest
9. Star Wars
10, Star Wars (with ESB kit)
 
I currently have the following

Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe
Battlezone
Lunar Lander
Tempest
Space Duel
Star Wars cockpit

Possibly the largest collection of vectors in Australia.

I also have a cinematronics Space Wars tucked away.
 
ok, your 100% wrong on your worst game. There is no contest its barrier... It a spectacular looking game. Has a 22" monitor in it. but there is no game to it. picture playing coleco hand held football. Not remove the scoring from the game. thats barrier... When one if the cinematroics programmers was ask about it, the comment from him was, they actually made that? it was a test piece..

my bests are star wars, tempest and space duel.

Here's what I have:
*Atari
Asteroids - Yes (but not a keeper for me) 3x
asteroids caberet (yes, but not a keeper for me)
Asteroids Deluxe - yes 2x
Battlezone - Yes (2x)
Black Widow - Yes
Gravitar - Yes (2x) both huo
Lunar Lander - yes
Red Baron - Yes (ur)
red baron cockpit no (sold to fellow collector
Major Havoc - Yes (dedicated and kit)
Quantum - Yes (dedicated and proto. proto need to go to new home)
Space Duel - Yes (2x 1 huo)
space duel cocktail no 2x sold to fellow collector
Star Wars - Yes (2 ur and cockpit. only keeeping 1 ur )
Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back - yes (have original kit)
Tempest - Yes (ur)
tempest cocktail (sold to fellow collector)
tempest cabaret yes (not a keeper for me)

*Bally Midway
Omega Race - yes (4x)

*Centuri
Rip Off - no ( sold cocktail)

*Cinematronics
Armor Attack - yes ( have 3, 2 are projects)
boxing bugs no( Sold mine to a fellow collector)
Cosmic Chasm - no (had 3, sold them)
Rip Off - Yes
Solar Quest - yes
Space Wars - yes (have 3, 2 are projects)
Star Castle - Yes
Starhawk - No (gave mine to ken)

*Exidy
Tail Gunner II - No (sold mine to fellow collector))

*Sega
Eliminator - Yes (2 player kit)
Space Fury - Yes
Star Trek - Yes (dedicated ur)
Tac/Scan - Yes (2x)
Zektor - Yes

*Vectorbeam
Barrier - No (sold mine to ken)
Speed Freak - yes
Warrior - no (sold mine to a fellow collector))

I figure there's 60 production XY games but only 40 unique ones if you don't count different versions, UR, CT, cabaret, etc. Over the years I've probably owned 80 to 100 XY games of which 31 were individual titles. Still have 21 in my game room.

3 way tie for best game - Asteroids, Rip Off and Demon
Worst Game - War of the Worlds

Here's what I have:
*Atari
Asteroids - Yes
Asteroids Deluxe - Sold
Battlezone - Yes
Black Widow - Yes
Gravitar - Yes
Lunar Lander - Sold
Red Baron - Yes
Major Havoc - Yes
Quantum - Yes
Space Duel - Yes
Star Wars - Yes
Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back - Sold
Tempest - Yes

*Bally Midway
Omega Race - Sold

*Centuri
Aztarac -Yes
Rip Off - Yes
Star Castle - No

*Cinematronics
Armor Attack - Sold
Cosmic Chasm - Yes
Rip Off - Yes
Solar Quest - Sold
Space Wars - No
Star Castle - Yes
Starhawk - No
Sundance - No
Tail Gunner -Yes
War of the Worlds - Sold

*Exidy
Tail Gunner II - No

*Rock-Ola
Armor Attack - Sold
Demon - Yes
Star Castle - No

*Sega
Eliminator - Sold
Space Fury - Yes
Star Trek - Yes
Tac/Scan - Yes
Zektor - Yes

*Vectorbeam
Barrier - No
Space War - No
Speed Freak - Sold
Warrior - Sold
 
ok, your 100% wrong on your worst game. There is no contest its barrier... It a spectacular looking game. Has a 22" monitor in it. but there is no game to it. picture playing coleco hand held football. Not remove the scoring from the game. thats barrier... When one if the cinematroics programmers was ask about it, the comment from him was, they actually made that? it was a test piece..

my bests are star wars, tempest and space duel.

Here's what I have:
*Atari
Asteroids - Yes (but not a keeper for me) 3x
asteroids caberet (yes, but not a keeper for me)
Asteroids Deluxe - yes 2x
Battlezone - Yes (2x)
Black Widow - Yes
Gravitar - Yes (2x) both huo
Lunar Lander - yes
Red Baron - Yes (ur)
red baron cockpit no (sold to fellow collector
Major Havoc - Yes (dedicated and kit)
Quantum - Yes (dedicated and proto. proto need to go to new home)
Space Duel - Yes (2x 1 huo)
space duel cocktail no 2x sold to fellow collector
Star Wars - Yes (2 ur and cockpit. only keeeping 1 ur )
Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back - yes (have original kit)
Tempest - Yes (ur)
tempest cocktail (sold to fellow collector)
tempest cabaret yes (not a keeper for me)

*Bally Midway
Omega Race - yes (4x)

*Centuri
Rip Off - no ( sold cocktail)

*Cinematronics
Armor Attack - yes ( have 3, 2 are projects)
boxing bugs no( Sold mine to a fellow collector)
Cosmic Chasm - no (had 3, sold them)
Rip Off - Yes
Solar Quest - yes
Space Wars - yes (have 3, 2 are projects)
Star Castle - Yes
Starhawk - No (gave mine to ken)

*Exidy
Tail Gunner II - No (sold mine to fellow collector))

*Sega
Eliminator - Yes (2 player kit)
Space Fury - Yes
Star Trek - Yes (dedicated ur)
Tac/Scan - Yes (2x)
Zektor - Yes

*Vectorbeam
Barrier - No (sold mine to ken)
Speed Freak - yes
Warrior - no (sold mine to a fellow collector))
Well if we are talking about each type of Atari cabinet like cocktail, upright etc.......
This could be a good conversation. Someone sell me an asteroids deluxe mini.
I have the Irish version of everything that applies and a euro black widow. I also have all 3 variants of tempest side art , hole no hole battle zones. Alternative art black widow. The rabbit hole goes deep.
The quantum proto how much we talking send me a pm . Is this the same one that sold at an arcade show in Texas?
 
Update to my list from a few years past

Running
  1. Asteroids UR (w/ Braze multi)
  2. Battlezone UR ( w/ Braze)
  3. Red Baron UR
  4. Black Widow UR (Atari field converted Gravitar)
  5. Gravitar UR
  6. Lunar Lander UR
  7. Space Duel UR
  8. Tempest UR
  9. Star Wars UR (w/esb)
  10. Quantum UR Reproduction (for sale)
  11. Asteroids Deluxe UR
  12. Black Widow UR #2 (for sale)
Cocktails and Cabarets
  1. Asteroids CKTL (used with cinevectron)
  2. Asteroids CKTL
  3. Tempest CKTL
  4. Tempest cabaret
In repair que
  1. 4x Asteroids UR
  2. 2x Tempest UR (one in MH conversion)
  3. 2x Battlezone (one complete w/rough cabinet, one empty cherry cabinet)
  4. Quantum w/amplifone
  5. Major Havoc (Atari field converted Space Duel)
  6. Lunar Lander (empty cabinet)
  7. Lunar Lander (Atari field converted to Asteroids)
  8. 2x Tempest cocktail need monitors
  9. 2x Space Duel cocktail (one bad cabinet, one empty cherry cabinet)
****Non Atari ****
  1. Star Castle UR with FreePlay / High Score Save Board (DogP/VC)
  2. Armor Attack UR
  3. 2x Star Castle UR both need monitor repair
  4. Star Hawk UR
  5. Ripp Off UR
  6. Omega Race UR
  7. Star Trek UR (field converted Tempest cabinet)
  8. Tac Scan
And yes lots of fire extinguishers
 
I'm at 10 of the 12 Atari vectors and I am slowly collecting parts to build a Lunar Lander. The other Atari I am missing is Quantum. I have BZ in cabaret and stand up and the same with Asteroids. The duplicates weren't intentional, just sort of happened with various multigame trade deals.

Cinematronics I have Armor Attack Rip Off, Star Castle and Solar Quest.

Sega I have Star Trek cockpit and standup. The sit down is in pieces ( just recently got the parts I need to finish it) and Space Fury.

Most of the vectors, I picked up back in the days of old when operators still had fresh memories of what a pain keeping them running was and looked at you like you were insane when you asked about buying them. Course, that didn't stop them from asking a small fortune from them. I do enjoy the vector games but there is always that moment of "oh, no, now what?" when I turn them on and the monitor is warming up. :)

Back in the old days, I also broke up several Cinemtronics games up after not being able to sell them for $50 or $75 as is. Yes, I do feel guilty about it but at that time I was living in an apartment and only had so much space and the rent on storage places was expensive and well no one wanted that old impossible to fix junk. The parts all went to good homes.
 
I'm in (sort of) the same boat as @alfonzotan with three dedicated cabinets that play them all collectively, except that I will most likely never have even one original out here and will only be playing these via emulation/reproduction thanks to Jason, Ralf, Barry, Mario, Robin, et al.

There are only two original vector machines I'm aware of in all the islands presently.

There was an Asteroids Deluxe upright on the Big Island for sale a few years ago that the purveyor ghosted me on (who knows what happened to that) and a Tempest cocktail owned by another forum member here, but that is literally it as far as I am aware.

At least I don't need that many fire extinguishers I suppose.
 
I have owned 4 in my life, but only have Asteroids at the moment. Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Tempest, Battlezone.

At one point I owned five Asteroids at the same time.
 
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