Golden Age Arcade Factory Footage

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Hello KLOVers.

For the Easter holidays, I share some old archive footage of arcade factories in action this week on the blog.

Check out Star Wars, Pole Position, Ms Pac and others being built on the production lines:

Right here.

There's stuff there I'd not seen before - hopefully of interest to many of you chaps.
 
cool... nice find as always.

reminds me of the good old days when america actually built shit and could compete in the world.
 
OMG! I now know why PPs have such a reputation......

That woman using the mirror to test the machines...... was using a BROKEN MIRROR!!!!

That bitch done jinxed the entire line!!
 
Well that would be a firing offensive nowadays...
 

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Cool videos!

Thanks for posting these. Is it wrong that I watched all 15 of the Ms Pac video?

:D

I gotta get one of these zip tie guns!
 
How cool is it seeing someone who may have built your machine as they were building it!

Great safety standards there Atari...see girl with broken mirror... :eek:

Also, if I owned a Star Wars, that blonde could play with my bezel all day long...

:D
 
I had seen the Ms. Pac vid a few years ago, but this one had much more footage. There were a lot of female workers there, they sure know how to solder too! Fast and accurate! Unlike us clods slowly and carefully soldering our vintage parts. I didn't know about that plastic tie gun, that's really cool, back then and even nowadays too.
 
Great safety standards there Atari...see girl with broken mirror... :eek:

I thought that was amazing too - not only the primitive way it was being done, but that she only had a shard of mirror to do it with.

And yeah, some slick soldering skills going on as well in the Midway factory. Although the speed at which it was being done might explain why we have to repair so much today.
 
PINK Ms.pacman !

Look how PINK the Ms.pacman's are!!!!!! It's still one of the hardest games to find in MINT unfaded condition and they made so many!!! Just saying!!!!! Great video's!!
 
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