Just found something really weird!

[Lodmot]

Take a look at this:

 

 

Why.... it appears to be a heavy 4-switcher!

Here's another picture, to kinda prove that I'm not making this up:

 

Has anyone else noticed this? Are there any heavy four-switcher Atari's?

Or... did they just simply use the heavy sixer picture and paint out the two other switches?

Edited March 4, 2012 by Lodmot

[ntavio]

That's interesting. I've never seen that before.

 

I'm inclined to say it's a fake but I can't prove it.

 

Do you own the actual box? Or where did you see this?

[Lodmot]

I actually saw it on a youtube video, here:

(skip to about 7:04)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONvf11l-wbY

And those two pictures.

Edited March 4, 2012 by Lodmot

[+save2600]

Posted about this a little while ago as I have one of those boxes. IIRC, the consensus was that Atari would use whatever was laying around for their stock photos and that a heavy 4-switch may have been prototyped or they simply got their shells mixed up and never bothered to change it.

[Cebus Capucinis]

I have a bunch of these for sale, $500 each.....

 

Heavy Six + Desolder 2 switches + Change faceplate = PROFIT!

 

I should mention they're "as is", but "they worked the last time I tried them"......

[opeygon]

Yeah nothing new here. This has been covered numerous times in the past. Pretty funny though!!!

[Deteacher]

I have a bunch of these for sale, $500 each.....

 

Heavy Six + Desolder 2 switches + Change faceplate = PROFIT!

 

I should mention they're "as is", but "they worked the last time I tried them"......

 

Not to mention making the color/bw switch work as the power switch, making the left difficulty operate as color/bw, making right difficulty work as game select and making game select work as game reset. Oh, then install 2 toggle switches on the back to work as the left and right difficulty. Sounds like a lot of work.