@@jacklick 12:45 Look at that copyright date ;). Usually they have the date of release (at least approximately). Googling it I see it says February 1982, though. Maybe they had a delay or decided to port it to a color screen?
@@jacklick Found some info: "When Asteroids Deluxe did not sell well, this game was taken off the shelf and released to moderate success." ...so they had it sitting "on the shelf" for a year or two.
4:01 It looks like these cutouts are there, so you can fit the marquee light closer to the top of the cabinet. They match these small mounting pieces of wood in the corners. I guess you don't want this thing with speakers to be just laying there, so maybe you don't pass as much vibration to the glass. Maybe try asking on KLOV how people have this piece mounted from the factory? You don't want the speakers to be too far from the grill as well, but having them close to your ears is not good either :). Hopefully everyone doesn't have it the same as you (slacker worker at the factory?) lol.
Every atari speaker shelf I have seen (see my Gravitar cabinet) were flat and were screwed in. Probably just missed at the factory. Need to find that guy.