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Title: Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: Magnet_Eye on May 10, 2003, 08:56:35 pm

Anyone now where to find these buttons or repros of them?

like used on tempest/asteroids, etc...

 :o

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: OSCAR on May 11, 2003, 09:54:19 pm

So far these buttons have not been repro'ed.  A google search on RGVAC will turn up some hits from some guys who investigated this, but the tooling setup costs quoted by Cherry ($10,000+, I think?) pretty much ended that idea.

Your best bet is to scour eBay for just the buttons or Atari control panels that still have the buttons intact.  Some people have found local arcade op's that still have the buttons on the shelf, but when they are gone, they are gone.  :)

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: SirPoonga on May 12, 2003, 12:12:19 am

ebay always has them.

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: paigeoliver on May 12, 2003, 12:47:53 am

I have been hoping to just randomly find one for some time now. So I can upgrade my Assault cabinet to the two player version. I already have the Japan boardset installed, which is identical to the US version except that it supports two player alternating. All I need now is a matching button to add a player two start button.

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: CitznFish on May 12, 2003, 03:07:08 am

Saw this in the newsgroups a week ago..

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Does anyone know of a source to get the original Atari Cone/Volcano Buttons
like the ones used in Missle Command?

Thanks,
Doug
drowland1967@hotmail.com

the response:

Quote

I can repro them for $10.00 a pair.
                            Kevin

www.ksamusements.com

this was in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: paigeoliver on May 12, 2003, 03:13:08 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on May 12, 2003, 12:47:53 am

I have been hoping to just randomly find one for some time now. So I can upgrade <auto-censored>ault cabinet to the two player version. I already have the Japan boardset installed, which is identical to the US version except that it supports two player alternating. All I need now is a matching button to add a player two start button.

Ok. Can someone turn off the AUTO Censor? I can't even type in the name of the game A S S A U L T without the autocensor turning it into ault and making me look like some sort of nimrod talking about ault (whatever that is?).


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Testing

my Assault
Assault
Atari Assault Cabinet

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: paigeoliver on May 12, 2003, 03:16:05 am

Ok. It looks like you can type Assault as long a you don't put the word "My" in front of it. As in "Kiss My A S S A U L T".

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: Jeehemdee on May 12, 2003, 04:19:39 am

Would someone by chance have a high resolution picture of the Atari cones...or even a drawing/schematic ?

Thanks very much,

Title: Re:Where to find those Atari start buttons?
Post by: shmokes on May 12, 2003, 11:45:33 am

Drawing?  We don't need no stinking 2D drawings.  Oscars got CAD drawings!

www.oscarcontrols.com/library