Did they make more PCBs than cabinets?

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I'm sure this has been asked before, but...for any given game, did manufacturers like Atari produce more PCBs than the cabinets they went in? For repair purposes & spares? And, if so, any guesses as to how many more?

(This is excluding conversion kits.)
 
that's what happens when you don't read the whole statement. But I would still assume so just like car parts. It use to be easier and faster to just replace the PCB or monitor than repair it. and in the hay day of arcades if a game was down you were seriously loosing money each day it was OOO
 
I'm sure this has been asked before, but...for any given game, did manufacturers like Atari produce more PCBs than the cabinets they went in? For repair purposes & spares? And, if so, any guesses as to how many more?

I would imagine more were made to accommodate some level of a failure rate during production, as well as for warranty/repair purposes.

And then there are all the accidental spares. Remember, some games ended up not selling well, and physical cabinets were modified to be used for another game from the factory. I'm sure Atari definitely had Lunar Lander spares sitting around for at least some period of time since they were converting LL's to be Asteroids cabinets.
 
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