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Should be easy enough to pop the coin door open and see if the other two flippers were ever mounted.
But that start button is fascinating..... I can't even see any evidence it was ever on the cabinet. Did Atari have full-on coin doors for anything prior to Atarians? All the 1976 and prior arcade games I'm looking at just had the smaller coin mech mounting plates.
Quoted from Haymaker:or the 2 missing flippers. Where the flippers should be, it has different ball wire guides, and plastics that seem to match the artwork. I suppose its possible that some operator, removed 2 flippers, made custom wire guides and plastics AND while he was at it, nicely and cleaned patched the start button hole and proceeded to then match the paint/art perfectly, but that seems like a stretch.
I could believe that being the first atari pin, and possibly a prototype, they used a midway coin door because it was available. The actual production coin doors weren't ready yet, but they needed a working prototype. Makes sense to me at least.
I am not an expert by any means, especially when it comes to atari pinball, but I'm gonna have to go with Occam's Razor on this one and bet it is a prototype of some sort. You'll definitely want to verify with somebody who would know though. I wonder if Mark or Steve Ritchie might have some answers.
Definitely document as much as you can and be sure to share with IPDB
Actually, Steve probably wouldn't be able to answer this one, he wasn't at Atari yet at that point.
-Hans
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