Barracora with a red cabinet, proto? Looking for info

Hi
I have this excellent condition Barracora that came out of a home, been there since about 83. It wasn’t until I started looking at other Barracoras did I realize the cabinets are always blue, but mine is red. Anyone have info on early production or prototypes?
Serial number is 516389 , posted it to serial number data base, seems to be way off any other Barracora listed.
http://www.ipsnd.net/View.aspx?id=177

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#2 5 years ago

RVH

Multiball33

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Montpelier, VA

8y 66,300 201 1

Very early game serial number for sure. Serial numbers are spread out and not consecutive on the 2300 made.

Never seen a red one either. Seen mars God of war with different cabinet colors, also jungle lord. Probably one of the first few games produced. The blue looks better imo. Yours looks real nice. Lmk if you are interested in selling it

#3 5 years ago

RON

Ronnie1114

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Nobody has any info on this?

#4 5 years ago

KWR

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Rich Bros

Middleton, ID

11y 76,600 991 35

It’s got to be some sort of proto/sample cab. Would have to be a few more out there someplace?

#5 5 years ago

DEN

jibmums

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Looking at your photo of the serial number stamping on IPSND, it looks like where the black paint is flaked off around the edges, there is not only some red paint visible but also some blue paint. Can you look at that up closely and see for sure? If that's the case, perhaps the cab was printed blue first, then red, then black, like they were trying out color combos in some unorthodox method. Either way, very cool find.

#6 5 years ago

MAR

MarAlb

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Quoted from jibmums:
Looking at your photo of the serial number stamping on IPSND, it looks like where the black paint is flaked off around the edges, there is not only some red paint visible but also some blue paint. Can you look at that up closely and see for sure? If that's the case, perhaps the cab was printed blue first, then red, then black, like they were trying out color combos in some unorthodox method. Either way, very cool find.

Or maybe they re-used a Jungle Lord cabinet as they also later re-used Hyperball intended cabinets for Cosmic Gunfight??

Indeed a very cool find!

#7 5 years ago

BHR

Brich

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Quoted from jibmums:
Looking at your photo of the serial number stamping on IPSND, it looks like where the black paint is flaked off around the edges, there is not only some red paint visible but also some blue paint. Can you look at that up closely and see for sure? If that's the case, perhaps the cab was printed blue first, then red, then black, like they were trying out color combos in some unorthodox method. Either way, very cool find.

Looking at the serial number and can not detect any blue paint

#8 5 years ago

KWR

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Rich Bros

Middleton, ID

11y 76,600 991 35

Need roger sharpe to chime in. He would know the story

#9 5 years ago

RON

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Quoted from pin-pimp:
Need roger sharpe to chime in. He would know the story

Yep. Or Barry Oursler

#10 5 years ago

DEN

jibmums

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OP
Quoted from Brich:
Looking at the serial number and can not detect any blue paint

Here's part of a screen capture from your photo on IPSND where I zoomed in on the 6. There's definitely a layer of blue underneath the red.

I'm actually surprised that there's red showing up underneath the black paint also. To me that would indicate that the entire cab was painted red first (and possibly blue before that), then black over it.

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#11 5 years ago

RON

Ronnie1114

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Might be a case of using what they had laying around for the first few games

#12 5 years ago

BHR

Brich

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Quoted from jibmums:
Here's part of a screen capture from your photo on IPSND where I zoomed in on the 6. There's definitely a layer of blue underneath the red.
I'm actually surprised that there's red showing up underneath the black paint also. To me that would indicate that the entire cab was painted red first (and possibly blue before that), then black over it.
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Good eye...I just had Lasik and my up close vision ain’t as great as it was! Let me get a couple more pics of that area and maybe below a leg

#13 5 years ago

BHR

Brich

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Indeed some blue showing under bottom edge

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#14 5 years ago

DEN

jibmums

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OP
Quoted from Brich:
Indeed some blue showing under bottom edge
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Pinball archaeology!

You can rule it out as a former Jungle Lord, as the main cabinet for the four double playfield games was a little taller in the back. The most recent blue cabinet game was Alien Poker at eleven months prior to Barracora, and the only games released between the two were the double playfield games. Likely it's either a repurposed Alien Poker, or a blank cab that served as a vehicle for testing paint colors.

Have you checked the top of the backbox for other serial numbers? I wonder if there's a different stamping up there.

#15 5 years ago

BHR

Brich

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Quoted from jibmums:
Pinball archaeology!
You can rule it out as a former Jungle Lord, as the main cabinet for the four double playfield games was a little taller in the back. The most recent blue cabinet game was Alien Poker at eleven months prior to Barracora, and the only games released between the two were the double playfield games. Likely it's either a repurposed Alien Poker, or a blank cab that served as a vehicle for testing paint colors.
Have you checked the top of the backbox for other serial numbers? I wonder if there's a different stamping up there.

Paper tag that says Pharoh
Same serial number on head top

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#16 5 years ago

RON

Ronnie1114

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This is cool! Love the hunt

#17 5 years ago

DEN

jibmums

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OP
Quoted from Brich:
Paper tag that says Pharoh
Same serial number on head top [quoted image][quoted image]

Could be a leftover Pharaoh backbox, before they stamped it. 506267 is nearly at the end of the Pharaoh run.

#18 5 years ago

BHR

Brich

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All good information, appreciate the detective work

4 months later

#19 4 years ago

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Brich

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