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the serial Number is TKG2 10127... Is this a low or high number? I'm a nice guy people. Just searching for the least sarcastic answer possible.. I have a nice fully working DK in the basement, and 2 other blue ones.
where are you located?
That's a low number. If I remember right the TKG2's started at 10000. As far as the nicks, I had a few small ones in mine so I had Home Depot match some paint and touched it up with a small model painting brush. - Barry
Ive searched this forum for a while now, and cant find it. Do you have the paint codes? Any other tips for restoring this one? (I'm new to restoring and everyone does things different.)
Do you still have the can you used for it? If so could I get the numbers for the paint from it? Would you recommended spray painted the black lip part black? It has that vinyl covering but a piece of mine is torn.
The story, quoted from old threads:
"Everyone knows the story, that Donkey Kong was developed to replace the slow selling RADARSCOPE. Radarscope production amounted to something like 800 units and Donkey Kong production was almost 75,000 units. A few Donkey Kong arcade games @1200 were produced in rare "red cabinets." Being so long ago, little of that 1.5% of the total DK production (with the RED cabinets) remain. I've been working on compiling the production data for years.
At any rate, the "red" Donkey Kong is known to be rare. There are many variations in "letters" in serial numbers but the "numerical" sequence is pretty consistant. Earlier "numbers" mean an earlier game. Games with serial numbers into the low three thousands have been found in red cabinets. This gives us something over 2000 "RED" Nintendo cabinets in total between the two games ... (serial numbers started at 1001). It is known that roughly Eight hundred "Radarscope" games were produced. This would make the last Radarscope have a serial number in the range of 1800+. The Radarscope in this auction has a serial number of 1874 and none higher has ever been discovered. Donkey Kong production began as soon as possible on the same Radarscope line and no more Radar Scope games were producted once DK production began.
Of all Nintendo games in red cabinets, no more than @1200 were dedicated Donkey Kongs, with possibly a few more being DK conversions using some of the existing @800 RADARSCOPE cabinets. The figure of @2000 red cabinets in total is from many sources
Side art was not developed for the first DK games. The later "Blue" cabinet for Donkey Kong was likely selected to better contrast with the side-art. The earliest "Blue" cabinet (with 2 slot coin doors) games became model TKG4-UP-US with a six digit "numeric only" serial number and the serial number plate was moved from the "top left" to the "top center" on the back of the game. The lowest six digit serial number known from a blue cabinet is 004103."