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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: jasonbar on August 28, 2009, 01:54:03 am
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I visited the Detroit Science Center & spotted an Asteroids/Lunar Lander cabinet. What game could this be? I've seen Lunar Lander in a few science museums...but where's the side art???
Laser Spirograph marquee????
Hey, it's a science experiment! In an Atari cab! Certainly a better life for an Atari B&W X-Y cab than many of their unfortunate demises...
There's a laser in the control panel. It's pointing at a pair of mirrors, each of which is mounted askew on a rotating disk. The 2 knobs control the RPM of the 2 disks. Then the light must bounce off a couple of mirrors inside the cab & gets rear-projected onto a flat screen where the tube once was.
Playing with the knobs gives you all sorts of funky polar coordinates images like a cardioid, as well as your favorite Spirograph-type images.
Pretty neat. Wonder what became of the guts...? I checked the back side for any Atari badges or stamps, but it's clean & plain & black.
-Jason
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this shows how much I procrastinate, even the small things..... I still have a picture of that thing on my phone, I was going to post it here and see if anyone could identify it. that was over 2 months ago...