Yellow Computer Space

that stuff (rare)should be on a high end auction house website where they could do more advertising then e bay, if they were my games i would go Christys auction house where you get people with money to burn. you may pay a little more in fees but you would get more then the asking price you start with, and they are real good looking games good luck on his sale's
 
Has anyone ever tried to repro these cabinets? I know every once in a while, it will be discussed in a thread, but never knew if anybody actually got the ball rolling on that. Something about all those curves and metal flake paint just make that cabinet so sweet.
 
Yellow cabs were the first ones and the main difference besides the color are the lock below the control panel and the back doors were cut out free-hand. Kinda hard to notice the door difference unless you've seen a few.

I had a brown metalflake cab that had the lock and free-hand back door, it's the only one I've ever seen or heard of so I suspect it was a one of a kind experiment. The brown metal flake matched the other cab by Nutting, Computer Space Ball:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7382

The white cab was a movie prop for Logan's Run (IIRC), not a proto.
 
Slightly off topic, but I don't think a separate thread is warranted. I'll probably get flamed all to hell over this, but does anyone else not get the allure of Computer Space? Ok, I get it. Very early game. Not enough for me to truly "get" the appeal of this game. Ok, neat cab. Again, not enough for me to truly "get" the appeal of the game. Honestly, I think the cab is ugly. But whatever. Is the game fun? Or is it just an expensive piece of nothing? And isn't the company's name "Nutting"? I dunno, I'd have picked a name that isn't such an suggestive verb.

On topic: In yellow. Cool.

Oh, there is a yellow one on the KLOV site.

- M1A
 
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Slightly off topic, but I don't think a separate thread is warranted. I'll probably get flamed all to hell over this, but does anyone else not get the allure of Computer Space? Ok, I get it. Very early game. Not enough for me to truly "get" the appeal of this game. Ok, neat cab. Again, not enough for me to truly "get" the appeal of the game. Honestly, I think the cab is ugly. But whatever. Is the game fun? Or is it just an expensive piece of nothing? And isn't the company's name "Nutting"? I dunno, I'd have picked a name that isn't such an suggestive verb.

On topic: In yellow. Cool.

Oh, there is a yellow one on the KLOV site.

- M1A

I'm with you there. The game's ugly, and it sucks. If that was released in say 1984, it would be worth a big fat goose egg.
 
I'm with you there. The game's ugly, and it sucks. If that was released in say 1984, it would be worth a big fat goose egg.

Agreed. The only reason it fetches such a high price is that it's considered the "first" arcade game.
 
That yellow Computer Space does look pretty sweet, but I think the best looking Computer Spaces are the red ones.
 
Agreed. The only reason it fetches such a high price is that it's considered the "first" arcade game.

Actually it's the first ever video arcade game. Big difference. If you collect comics then it's like having an issue of Superman #1.
 
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