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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2015, 06:35:19 PM »
Are videos OK too ? Love the thread idea by the way.

Sure.  :)

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Re: Post them here - pictures of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2015, 08:34:43 PM »
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  :spaceace: happy days
Cool to have an ex-Atari employee here...always a bit jealous :) then again, I was just a kid...

I deliberately quoted that picture again because......do we all agree that the Euro Atari cabarets had much, much nicer woodgrain than the U.S. ones ? This stuff looks pretty chic compared to the rather fake and cheap looking stuff used in the U.S. Factory :)


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« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2015, 09:24:57 PM »

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  :spaceace: happy days
Cool to have an ex-Atari employee here...always a bit jealous :) then again, I was just a kid...

I deliberately quoted that picture again because......do we all agree that the Euro Atari cabarets had much, much nicer woodgrain than the U.S. ones ? This stuff looks pretty chic compared to the rather fake and cheap looking stuff used in the U.S. Factory :)



man i was a kid 17 years old  ::) now 52  :lol: it was fun while it lasted they moved 3 times while i worked for them,first took some room in ingersoll warehouse in new north road london n1,then all the way to cheshunt industrial estate, last place was i think called inter city house across from slough railway station, that was to far to commute so left after doing that for a while.

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2015, 01:17:15 AM »
Ah, recently saw a 2600 with Ingersoll mentioned on the box on Facebook, they said in the beginning Ingersoll imported Ataris in the UK.

Still cool to be able to have that experience. I was a bit younger, 47 now :)

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« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2015, 01:30:53 PM »
Blackie, in return of 'all the hassle and hard work' I went through getting your parts in Worms  ;D I'd like to read some stories from that time. This sounds very interesting!!! :)

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« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2015, 03:58:28 PM »
Blackie, in return of 'all the hassle and hard work' I went through getting your parts in Worms  ;D I'd like to read some stories from that time. This sounds very interesting!!! :)

that would have me searching for long gone hidden memories  :lol: we did stick ingersoll stickers on the boxes back in the day ,that didnt last so long, as we moved over to warehouse unit in cheshunt and then nothing to do with ingersoll  :lol: maybe i will think on it and post it somewhere  ;)

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2015, 08:13:44 PM »







All pics linked from this amazing site
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.co.uk/
« Last Edit: June 20, 2015, 08:22:04 PM by lesoleil70 »

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #22 on: June 21, 2015, 11:25:45 PM »

View of an assembly line of generic cabinets, built inside the JEUTEL factory at Toucy/France, during the year 1995.

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2015, 11:09:28 AM »
Nice topic guys! Always loved those pics.

294409475_9wbdG-L by barrybuise, on Flickr

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2015, 02:02:29 PM »
Wow, (New) Astro City CP's in the make, I love it!  :)

Oh, more Ninty cab assembly pictures please!
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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #25 on: June 22, 2015, 02:07:04 PM »
Yes that's the picture of the orange Nintendo cabs I meant......drool :)

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Re: Post them here - pictures of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #26 on: June 22, 2015, 05:41:28 PM »
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.





Imagine the attract sound of all those Q*bert´s  ;D

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2015, 10:49:50 AM »
Found this video - some great footage of Bally & Tron assembly plants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3sqUrX83Yg&feature=youtu.be&t=5m13s

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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2015, 07:55:16 PM »
Just leeched this from the John's arcade Flickr feed:


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Re: Post them here - pictures and video's of Arcade Game Assembly plants
« Reply #29 on: July 05, 2015, 02:03:41 AM »
What I find strange about the Nintendo pics is that there seems to be no production line......it's "just" a row of cabs in an otherwise empty hall....strange !