asteroids deluxe on ebay

[rob1234]

I have my asteroids deluxe cab on ebay, located in Ft Mitchell, KY.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6181211436

[paigeoliver]

It couldn't possibly have had new sideart, Asteroids Deluxe had the artwork silk screened directly onto the cabinet, and reproduction art was never made.

Also, it equally could not have gotten a new monitor either. No one has made a compatible monitor since 1982.

[rob1234]

ok I will modify my ebay auction. I can tell the boards are not the originals on the monitor tube, and there is almost no possible way this side art is 25 years old, so I don't know how it is in brand new condition if there is no way of reproducing it. 

[paigeoliver]

ok I will modify my ebay auction. I can tell the boards are not the originals on the monitor tube, and there is almost no possible way this side art is 25 years old, so I don't know how it is in brand new condition if there is no way of reproducing it. 

It is, I have owned dozens of Atari games, they pretty much all look like that. Their sideart was simply the best in the industry and it doesn't get damaged from age, only from damage.

And those have to be stock monitor boards (unless someone made replacement black and white vector monitors and/or boards that absolutely NO ONE in the industry or hobby ever heard of). The monitor may have been repaired, replaced with another unit, but it is still a 25 year old monitor.

The only reason I am bringing it up is that almost every collector around is instantly going to see the auction and see one thing that CANNOT be true, and a guess at another thing which also can't be true.

[rob1234]

ok well I have made appropriate changes to the ebay auction for collectors (which I am obviously not one) I can't modify anything else since someone has already bid on it.  If anyone on the boards is interested, you can stop by the check it out before the auction ends if you want to.

[paigeoliver]

Noticed your high score table, one would think that GOD would get a higher score than that! 

[AlanS17]

Noticed your high score table, one would think that GOD would get a higher score than that!

[ChadTower]

It couldn't possibly have had new sideart, Asteroids Deluxe had the artwork silk screened directly onto the cabinet, and reproduction art was never made.

Also, it equally could not have gotten a new monitor either. No one has made a compatible monitor since 1982.

My AD cab has vinyl that is peeling off a bit in the corners.

[Lilwolf]

Rob, you where suppost to put that up here first!  I might be interested in it...   (but BOY would my wife kill me if I came home with another arcade machine!)

[rob1234]

Yeah I think mine is vinyl too. I think they all are.

[paigeoliver]

To be a BIT more exact, those Atari cabinets are covered in white vinyl and then screened (and so is Galaxian, but they used a crap process on Galaxian), which is a zillion times more durable than stickers.

[ChadTower]

Taking a CLOSE look at mine, the ink does seem to be in layers.  Can't tell from this if it was printed on the vinyl and then put on the cab, or printed on the cab after the vinyl was applied.

[paigeoliver]

It is in layers, and on most games the black is on top, and thus gets scratched off first, which is why most Atari games can be touched up really well using only a black sharpie.

I am almost certain they vinyl the cab and then screened it. (Or more specifically the side pieces of wood). If it was the other way around then there would be unapplied pieces of that vinyl floating around, along with games that had poorly applied art, I have neither seen, nor heard of either.