Ms. Pac Man factory footage

[eurotronic]

Here it's a vid of a Bally/Midway factory in the 80's, showing the making process of a Ms pacman cabinet.

http://mediaburn.org/video/wired-in-raw-28/#video

Enjoy!

PS: the vid start at 0:49.

[Blanka]

Double post:
https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=4113.0
But how to download.... ?

[anunaki]

In the other topic there's a direct link

[level42]

More (mostly Bally) factory footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOh9HL-dOdQ

Pac Man and Tron production going on. Funny, I recognize some of the guys from the Ms.Pac video (esp. the guy with the weird hat )

[Blanka]

Cool video Level42! Nice pick-N-place machines. Reminds me a bit of assembling 33 Retro Spaces in 2010.

[level42]

Yeah, it was top-of-the-bill in the early 80's I guess but when I looked at it my first feeling was: Mmmm, pretty slow.

Then again, can't compare through-hole picking and placing with SMD....

[Blanka]

Yeah, it was top-of-the-bill in the early 80's I guess but when I looked at it my first feeling was: Mmmm, pretty slow.

I was expecting hand work!

[level42]

LOL, well inserting the chips is

It's a lot of hand work still. Today it would probably happen in China, although Stern seems to be keeping up things with the pinball machines in pretty much the same way they always did.