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I am a new collector and excited to have found you all, my like-interested, arcade-desease afflicted brotheren.
Well, to the meat of the matter. I recently got a original atari return of the jedi stand up as part of a group of arcades I recieved from the idaho silverwood theme park's quarter arcade closure. After blowing off the dust and adjusting the monitor it works and looks really great, cabinet is in almost new condition and monitor is bright. It is missing one small lower section of side art and a 2 foot piece of t-molding, the only detractors.
For the record it is the 15th stand up in my collection, but is definitly proving to be the most mysterious. The reason being is after doing what research i could on the web I found that mine is a little different......
First off, the owner's manual is in a black and white cover. The art matches the one's I've seen on the internet, but the binding is different too. It also has an rubber stamping of "Preliminary" on all the paperwork. The serial is UR00010, and the front has "revision 1" typed on the "gauge cluster". which also looks slightly different from what I've seen.
The Silverwood property ID tag is numbered 38802 and since the model number is 388 I'm figuring they had two of these machines at one time. It makes sense because of the extra parts that came with it, looks like #1 (maybe atari serial 09 or 011) got canabalized=-(.
My question is;
1)Whats the story on this one? is this just an oddball or will it prove to be more collectable than any of the others? I'm not selling but would like to know anyhow.
2) how does atari serial numbers work, is this really number 10 off the production floor or part of a bigger run?
Any idea's, opinions, or leads on where to go next would definitly appreciated.
Well, to the meat of the matter. I recently got a original atari return of the jedi stand up as part of a group of arcades I recieved from the idaho silverwood theme park's quarter arcade closure. After blowing off the dust and adjusting the monitor it works and looks really great, cabinet is in almost new condition and monitor is bright. It is missing one small lower section of side art and a 2 foot piece of t-molding, the only detractors.
For the record it is the 15th stand up in my collection, but is definitly proving to be the most mysterious. The reason being is after doing what research i could on the web I found that mine is a little different......
First off, the owner's manual is in a black and white cover. The art matches the one's I've seen on the internet, but the binding is different too. It also has an rubber stamping of "Preliminary" on all the paperwork. The serial is UR00010, and the front has "revision 1" typed on the "gauge cluster". which also looks slightly different from what I've seen.
The Silverwood property ID tag is numbered 38802 and since the model number is 388 I'm figuring they had two of these machines at one time. It makes sense because of the extra parts that came with it, looks like #1 (maybe atari serial 09 or 011) got canabalized=-(.
My question is;
1)Whats the story on this one? is this just an oddball or will it prove to be more collectable than any of the others? I'm not selling but would like to know anyhow.
2) how does atari serial numbers work, is this really number 10 off the production floor or part of a bigger run?
Any idea's, opinions, or leads on where to go next would definitly appreciated.
