Value increase with round coin slots, Asteroids?

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My Asteroids machine has these round type coin acceptors that you drop your quarter in sideways. They look like chrome flying saucers on on my coin door :) Every other one I have ever seen has the standard one you see on most other acrade games where it has the red 25 cent logo to the left of the coin slot. I was just wondering if I had something rare or unique?
 
My Asteroids machine has these round type coin acceptors that you drop your quarter in sideways. They look like chrome flying saucers on on my coin door :) Every other one I have ever seen has the standard one you see on most other acrade games where it has the red 25 cent logo to the left of the coin slot. I was just wondering if I had something rare or unique?

It's just the earlier 'Owl-Eye' coin door that was used on Lunar Lander and the early Asteroids cabs. The coindoors were upgraded to the newer style in later production runs because it was easy to get free credits with the older style. I think the Owl-eyes look better myself. BTB, with that coin door, you probably also have a G05-801 B&W vector monitor which I prefer to the 802 and the V2000, the later B&W vector monitors that were put into Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe.
 
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My Asteroids machine has these round type coin acceptors that you drop your quarter in sideways. They look like chrome flying saucers on on my coin door :) Every other one I have ever seen has the standard one you see on most other acrade games where it has the red 25 cent logo to the left of the coin slot. I was just wondering if I had something rare or unique?

Yes, they are rare and unique.
 
My Asteroids machine has these round type coin acceptors that you drop your quarter in sideways. They look like chrome flying saucers on on my coin door :) Every other one I have ever seen has the standard one you see on most other acrade games where it has the red 25 cent logo to the left of the coin slot. I was just wondering if I had something rare or unique?
Earlier production run, so perhaps to someone that means something to might be worth more.
 
I have one of those Lunar Lander-to-Asteroids factory conversions in the shop right now. Asteroids marquee, bezel, bezel cardboard, and CP - with owl-eye coin door, Lunar Lander side art, and a LL-550 serial number plate....
 
Asteroids machines below 18,900 had G05-801 monitors and "owl eye" coin doors along with yellow text on the bezels. They also had a copyright sticker on the monitor itself since that wasn't yet coded in the game.

I don't think they are worth any more than a later production game and in fact the HV unit on the G05-801 is more of a hassle to repair so if I had my pick of two similar games on either side of SN 18900, I'd pick the later version.
 
Asteroids machines below 18,900 had G05-801 monitors and "owl eye" coin doors along with yellow text on the bezels. They also had a copyright sticker on the monitor itself since that wasn't yet coded in the game.

I don't think they are worth any more than a later production game and in fact the HV unit on the G05-801 is more of a hassle to repair so if I had my pick of two similar games on either side of SN 18900, I'd pick the later version.

I have another Asteroids at work with a G05-802 and regular coin door. Serial number is AST-2500....
 
Are you going to make it a Lunar Lander or Asteroids?

Who? What?

If me, the game is not ours. We just fixed the monitor for a guy. Interestingly, it has the 2x speedup hack done to it. Apparently it was done before the guy got it and he's used to it, so we're leaving it on. I actually enjoyed playing it that way, and may do it myself if I ever find an Asteroids of my own...
 
The Owl Eye coin door (and yellow text on the plexi for that matter) are a little harder to find and more sought after, but not "rare" and dont really affect the value one way or another.
 
i always liked the owl eye doors. the other ones just dont look right to me.
 
Coin door

The Owl Eye coin door (and yellow text on the plexi for that matter) are a little harder to find and more sought after, but not "rare" and dont really affect the value one way or another.

I have seen Asteroids with the owl eye doors and whiit text on the bezel. Not sure if they were origional coin doors or bezels to the machine. It seems to me the yellow text is more rare than the Owl eye.
 
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Connector

Im pretty sure you will have to change the connector

Actually there is an adapter harness to go from an owl eye to the newer version door. Owl eyes plug right in. Many of them were changed out on location when people figured out how easy it was to get free credits. I am sure many ops threw them away after the upgrade because of the loss of revenue and never looked back.
 
Ya know, i think I have access to a yellow text bezel. I wonder what it'd go for?
 
Who? What?

If me, the game is not ours. We just fixed the monitor for a guy. Interestingly, it has the 2x speedup hack done to it. Apparently it was done before the guy got it and he's used to it, so we're leaving it on. I actually enjoyed playing it that way, and may do it myself if I ever find an Asteroids of my own...

I think the world record was set using that 2x hack. All hail "The Saf"....
 
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