Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants

[ckong]

Like Level42, I also like pictures of our games being built in manufacturing and assembly plants. And sometimes I dream of just walking down those assembly lines! So show us what you've got.

This is a picture of an Atari assembly line where currently Centipede's are being tested, somewhere around 1981

[ckong]

And here we have an assembly line filled with Q*bert's in their end phase of assembly, as some already show gameplay images on the tubes. These are the models without the Gottlieb name plate on the coin door.

[ckong]

Here is a picture of the Atari factury in Ardfinnan, just outside Tipperary, Ireland, 1979. At that time they produced three types of arcade games for mainland Europe (including the UK, I guess), a large stand-up arcade cabinet, a mid-sized stand-up arcade cabinet and a hexagonal sit-down restaurant/bar type “cocktail” cabinet. In total about 150 games per day. (more info in this article: http://riordanco.com/jimsblog/?page_id=594).

 

I love the woodgrain cabs, but which game can it be? And what games are there 'shelved' on the right side?

[ckong]

Donkey Kong, looks like an US location

[Etienne MacGyver]

Zacc pics from the presentation pdf that is floating around the interwebs 

[Thwocker]

clone wars!   

[Luigi]

ah, the good old days

[DarthNuno]

Great topic idea! 


Final test for these HIGHWAY cabinets, in the "Electro-Kicker/Jupiter" French factory. September 1975

[Alpha1]

Here is a picture of the Atari factury in Ardfinnan, just outside Tipperary, Ireland, 1979. At that time they produced three types of arcade games for mainland Europe (including the UK, I guess), a large stand-up arcade cabinet, a mid-sized stand-up arcade cabinet and a hexagonal sit-down restaurant/bar type “cocktail” cabinet. In total about 150 games per day. (more info in this article: http://riordanco.com/jimsblog/?page_id=594).

 

I love the woodgrain cabs, but which game can it be? And what games are there 'shelved' on the right side?

Check the proto white sided cabs on the racking on the top right. One is a Tempest.

[ckong]

Next you will tell us that it's in your collection! like other proto's that you have!    LOL

[level42]

That factory mentioned above......from the outside.....

[level42]

Are videos OK too ? Love the thread idea by the way.

Once again (because it never gets boring): 16 minutes in the Bally-Midway factory:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3781194/watch-this-ms-pac-man-assembly-line-footage


Compilation, Bally-Midway, Atari, Taito and more ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOh9HL-dOdQ

[level42]

From the time that not only the games were in B/W, but also the pictures !

http://www.atarigames.com/page9/page8/page8.html

[level42]

I remember a picture from the US Nintendo factory with rows of (orange ?) cabs...

[blackie63]

Here is a picture of the Atari factury in Ardfinnan, just outside Tipperary, Ireland, 1979. At that time they produced three types of arcade games for mainland Europe (including the UK, I guess), a large stand-up arcade cabinet, a mid-sized stand-up arcade cabinet and a hexagonal sit-down restaurant/bar type “cocktail” cabinet. In total about 150 games per day. (more info in this article: http://riordanco.com/jimsblog/?page_id=594).

 

I love the woodgrain cabs, but which game can it be? And what games are there 'shelved' on the right side?

i will say that when i worked many years ago for atari console division we had the full sized machines come through our work place for uk distribution and some were kept in our rest area for free play pole position.tempest,space duel,centipede,asteroids,missile command, but funnily enough we used to go to the nearest pub for lunch as it had defender   happy days