Atari video game production numbers

My personal list that I have been keeping.

Akka Arrh 2 (Both owned by the same person)
Arabian 1950
Arcade Classics 6
Asteroids 47840
Asteroids (cocktail) 8725
Asteroids (factory Lunar Lander conversion) 200
Asteroids (Gold) 1 (Belonged to Ed Logg last time I checked)
Asteroids Deluxe 18142
Asteriods Deluxe (cabaret) 1005
Asteroids Deluxe (cocktail) 3252
Atari Baseball 1050
Atari Football 10450
Atari Football (Four player version) 901
Battlezone 13022
Battlezone (cabaret) 2000
Battlezone (cocktail) 1
Begas Battle 700
Berzerk 39000
Berzerk (cocktail) 1000
Black Widow 1550
Bradley Trainer 2-3
Breakout 11000
Bruce Jenner (Laserdisc) 2 (both of them currently exist, but there is only one copy of the laser disc left, and it suffers from bit rot)
Burgertime 22,000
Centipede 46062
Centipede (cabaret) 3924
Centipede (cocktail, 13 inch display) 5977
Centipede (cocktail, 19 inch display) 25
City Connection 1000 (Guessed from serial numbers)
Cloak & Dagger (Dedicated) 25
Computer Space (Yellow) 8
Cosmic Chasm 400 (Based on serial numbers)
Crystal Castles 4880 (one of those is mine)
Crystal Castles (cocktail) 500
Donkey Kong (Red) 2000
Dig Dug 10504
Dig Dug (cabaret) 505
Dig Dug (cocktail) 1219
Doom II 1 (Functioning movie prop)
Dr. Sparkz Lab 3 (2 of which are currently accounted for)
Dragon's Lair 8300 (Guessed from serial numbers of known cabinets)
Food Fight 1951
Food Fight (cocktail) 100
Freedom Fighter 30 (Inferred from serial numbers)
Gravitar 5427
Goal to Go 100
I, Robot 1300 (Highly debated)
Inferno 25
Joust (cocktail) 500 (Debated, could be higher)
Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest 500 (Debated, could be higher)
Kangaroo 9803 (One of them is mine)
Kick 1500 (More were made as Kick-Man)
Liberator 762
Lock 'n' Chase (dedicated) 800
Lunar Lander 4830
Major Havoc (upright) 300
Marble Madness 2: Marble Man 3-6 (3 known to exist now)
Millipede (cocktail) 1300
Millipede (upright) 8690
Missile Command (cabaret) 1500
Missile Command (cocktail) 3005
Missile Command (cockpit) 100-200
Missile Command (upright) 14044
Ms. Pac-Man (upright) 115,000 (Bootlegs and cocktails would nearly double this number)
Night Driver 2100
Pac-Man 100,000 (US uprights only, clones, bootlegs, overseas versions, and tables could make this number as high as 250,000)
Peter Packrat 500
Pole Position II (dedicated) 2400
Pole Position (sitdown) 3169
Pole Position (upright) 17270
Primal Rage II Less than 10 (1 currently known to exist)
Professor Pac-Man 400 (Most of which were returned to Midway and later converted to Pac-Land)
Quake - Arcade Tournament Edition 20 (A lot of people made their own Quake arcade machines too, those are actually more common than the real ones)
Quantum 500
Radar Scope 3000 (2000 of those were factory converted to Donkey Kong)
Radar Scope (environmental) around 100
Red Baron 1500
Red Baron (cockpit) 504
Shrike Avenger 10-12
Sinistar (cockpit) 3
Space Duel (cocktail) 1019
Space Duel 11017
Space Ace 5000 (Mostly conversions)
Space Invaders 60,000 (US uprights only, clones, bootlegs, overseas versions, and tables could make this number as high as 150,000)
Space Invaders (Alien "Taiten" headed UK version) 20
Sprint 2 8200
Stargate 26,000
Stargate (cocktail) 1,000
Star Wars (cockpit) 2450
Star Wars (upright) 10245
Starship I 3500
S.T.U.N. Runner (Upright) 1 (The rest were sit down units)
Super Breakout 4805
Super Don Quixote (Dedicated) 50
Tapper (monochrome sideart) 3200
Tapper (color sideart) 100
Tapper (cocktail) 300
Tempest (cabaret) 2176
Tempest (cocktail) 1663
Tempest 25112
Turkey Shoot 450
Video Pinball 1505
War of the Worlds 10
Warlords (cocktail) 1253
Warlords (upright) 1014
Xevious 5295


Less than exact numbers, speculation, lies, and dirty lies.
These numbers come from rumor, memory, speculation, and other inexact sources.

Blaster (wooden cabinet) Probably only a few hundred, most Blasters shipped in the DuraMold cabinet.
Crunch Pod Zero This game existed only as a prop in "Pepper Ann".
Death Race Less than 1,000
Defender Somewhere around 50,000
Donkey Kong (Entire series) Close to 80,000 or so.
Exidy (All titles) Most Exidy games only had a run of a few hundred. They didn't have facilities to do much more than that.
Galaxian (25" display) Not too many, as 19" models seem to outnumber the 25" ones about 50 to 1.
Gyruss Thought to be around 10,000, but that number is purely an estimate.
Hard Drivin': Airborne Maybe 25 or so? It was tested but never went into wide production.
Jack The Giantkiller, Naughty Boy, and Zzyzzyxx (combined) 5,000 boardsets were made for this platform in total.
Joust Somewhere around 40,000 to 60,000
Manhole Zero This game has showed up as a prop in a lot of television shows (Silver Spoons, Married with Children, et cetera), but it is only an empty cabinet, and has nothing inside.
Moppet Video (total of all titles) A thousand at best, most of which are long gone now.
Nintendo Vs. Unisystem Less than 80,000 total, because these were mostly made for retrofitting Donkey Kong series games. Probably more like 20,000.
Puppy Pong At least 35, but no more than 100.
Red Baron (original cabinet style, before they started using spare Battlezone cabinets) 3-10
Robotron 2084 11,000 (Unverified, I can't remember where I read that number)
Shark JAWS Less than 500 (Highest serial number I can find is mine, and that is number 311)
Splat! A few hundred at best, probably less.
Star Castle 8,000-10,000
Street Fighter 2 (all versions) Way too many! (Apparently it was around 35,000. This was the only game ever to break 30,000 after 1984).
Sundance Around 100, almost all of which blew up the minute they were plugged in.
Super Death Chase less than 10.
The Last Starfighter Zero This game never existed as anything other than a movie prop, and a prototype boardset that didn't work correctly.
Time Pilot (cocktail) Probably less than 100. The serial number on mine is 000007, and I can't find anyone else who owns one, and an extensive usenet search only shows mention of two others, both of which were seen at live auctions.
Time Pilot '84 (dedicated) A few hundred, as the vast majority of these were kits to retrofit Time Pilot.
Vindicators 2 A few hundred
 
Jousts number is waaay off. I collect production numbers as well as they only made around 18,000....the number straight from Williams.

Donkey Kong had about 68,000 made in the US
Donkey Kong Junior did about 30,000
Donkey Kong 3 only did around 5,000...all kits

Galaga had about 40,000 made
 
so would that make a Donkey Kong 3 Game Rare becouse of not many made? Or was it becouse it just was'nt a hit game like the others? If Donkey Kong 3 was only a Kit Game then most of the Cab's would be Donkey Kong cab's?
 
Donkey Kong 3 is somewhat rare, but also isn't in any demand, so that means next to nothing.

Yes, since it was a kit game, then most of them were installed in DK and DK Junior cabinets, though I've known them to appear in Popeye and RadarScope cabs as well.
 
DK3 was actually pretty fun. Maybe it was the whole shooting element, but I use to enjoy playing it.
 
TBBK Where did you get your info on the Moppets? I think around 500 Pirate Treasures and Leprechauns were made. One of my cabinets has 450 something written on the side and on the coin box. I've seen just as many Noah's Arks, Desert Races, and Tug Boats as I have Leps and Pirate Treasures. I agree most have been converted or thrown away. At least 7 were discovered last year either dedicated or converted and 3 or so this year. They are comming out of the wood work.
 
Noice, I don't really remember. Everything under the dirty lies section is stuff I heard once, or saw once, but are not particularly sure of.
 
I bought an Arkanoid that was a converted Kangaroo- my first game, didn't know at the time. 9,000 isn't very many at all. Now I feel kind of bad for painting it (the sideart was pretty nice too).
 
Kangaroo is a pretty common game, and easy to find in nice condition. Still, I wouldn't ever paint one over, that game easily ranks in the top 10 best sideart of all time list.
 
I wonder what game had the lowest production numbers but was sold to arcades and not just a demo? I know the Bruce Jenner laser game had a production of only 2 but were they sold to arcades or were they kept in the factory?
 
lol bumping an old one since I was looking for something concerning asteroids sideart.

I had a tapper cocktail # 426 (sold it)

and while I am bumping it:

I picked up an asteroids today, the guy had 2. one had all black sideart, one had a border of while around the sideart. I think the one with white had a serial # over 45,000.

does that sound right?
 
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