Red Baron cabaret pictures
- Thread starter Mark H
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There's also this version:
http://www.rotheblog.com/2008/11/arcade/rare-atari-red-baron-prototype-changes-hands/
http://www.rotheblog.com/2008/11/arcade/rare-atari-red-baron-prototype-changes-hands/
Thanks Tony - I presume that picture is from the Red Baron cabaret manual so that proves at least Atari were planning to make a cabaret version which would be the identical size to the Battlezone cabaret.
I wonder what stopped them making this then as no one has ever seen one?
Very strange...
Cheers
Mark
I wonder what stopped them making this then as no one has ever seen one?
Very strange...
Cheers
Mark
Hi All - please see the attached response from Todd at TNT in the US. He owns nearly every cabaret produced and I think he would know if one existed:
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Hi....Although there IS a manual, no one has ever seen one anywhere...and we think they cancelled plans to make them when the game was not a hit. The cabinet would have been the same one used for Food Fight Ireland cabinet
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Sent: Fri, Apr 6, 2018 1:41 pm
Subject: Red Baron cabaret by Atari - does this exist ???
Hi Todd,
I hope you are well. I am a big UK Atari fan and I own a number of cabarets including; Tempest, Asteroids and Centipede. From your experience did Atari ever produce a Red Baron cabaret and have you ever seen one. I believe the production numbers below are correct for the upright and sitdown versions. I have seen a picture of a cabaret manual for Red Baron on the internet and the below copy from a manual certainly hints that Atari may have produced it, what is your experienced view please Todd ?
Cabinet Types
» Red Baron Upright - June 1981 - Production: 1,500 units - price $1,995 - measures/weight?
» Red Baron Sitdown (Cockpit) - May 1981 - Production: 504 units - price $2,795 - measures/weight?
I am a big UK fan of your Youtube "restoration videos" so please keep it up.
Regards
Mark H said:
Funny as I'm the "tony j" mentioned above. Clay C would be Clay Cowgill (of course). I vaguely recall Chris having the Red Baron proto but I didn't know that Clay bought it.. Chris also had the Battlezone cocktail prototype that he got when an ex-atari employee posted it FS on RGVAC. Chris had a great collection but sold it all in the early 2000s.