How were game originally shipped?

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After seeing numerous threads about shipping horrors, I was wondering how the games were originally shipped. Obviously thousands of games were distributed BITD. How did they not get all messed up?
 
I think I've seen games that were fully crated. I know I have seen unopened williams games that are on a pallet and basically covered in a thick cardboard box that is strapped to the pallet. As for a shipping company/transport, I would venture a guess that the business was big enough that you had trucks filled with only games unlike today where games are on trucks with many other items. I'm sure games got damaged BITD but truck drivers probably delivered so many of these BITD that they knew how to handle them. Plus this was a big business shipping an item not an individual. Do you think Target or Wal Mart would really get a lot of grief from a shipping company if that company damaged their property? A big company has more leverage so I'm sure issues were handled better than what collectors deal with today.
 
Distributors were ordering a truck load, the ones I saw were the standard cardboard box no pallet. Piled in one end.

Things did happen.

My old distributor had a heck of a time getting cocktail table Donkey Kongs. They lost one shipment, finally found the trailer stored with a huge shipment of shoes in front of them that the shoe store refused, and shipping company didn't want to unload 3/4ths of a trailer to get the games.

They had another shipment lost in a ditch in a blizzard out west somewhere.

I'd even seen the distributor knock over games.
LTG :)
 
Cool video! I wish they made games like that again. So many people out there that could use jobs, wish a company would start up and do this again. Wishful thinking.
 
Wow! I love the assembly footage. Makes you wonder how many of those Tempest and Centipede cabients are still around.
 
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