potatohead's Blog - Serial Numbers

RSS Bot · February 11, 2009

The VCS I has as a kid was a Sunnyvale model. That one was lost and had to be replaced. One $5 craigslist dea, and a coupla hours doing repair, I've got a near perfect looking Taiwan heavy 6.

I always liked the heavy models, just because that alum shielding is so damn cool! My Atari 400 is built the same way too. While fixing the heavy 6, I opened that up, just for kicks. Everything looks just fresh and new. Love that.

So, I got to thinking how close was I to getting an actual Made in the U.S.A. video game? Turns out the answer is harder than I thought. I'm confused with all the prefixes, this number and that.

All I do know is the replacement one looks exactly like the original one, right down to the switcher board.

The number is 5xxxxx something. Don't have it in front of me at the moment, but it's in the low 500K range. Not interested in value, so much as the whole thing just got me to thinking how many were made here, as opposed to somewhere else?

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