Is there a list of how many of each arcade game were manufactured?

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Is there a list of how many of each arcade game were manufactured?

I've seen numbers for the more popular games like Pac-Man (something like 100k were sold in the US and 300k worldwide, I think), but I'd like to know the numbers for all the other classic arcade games. Does anyone have a reference for this?

Also, what would you guess is the percent of the classic arcade game machines (made during the "golden age" period from 1978-1983) that are still intact? That is, what percent of these games are still complete arcade games versus those that were destroyed/thrown in the garbage/parted out? Half? Less? More?
 
how many were made and how to find out

hmmmm I wonder how many atari Destroyer games were made ? game was not on any list.
Midways 'Two Tigers' too....
also Apollo 14 from 1970'
so do I find out ? or destined to never know...
 
How about Zoo Keeper? I don't see any Taito numbers on those lists (except for Space Invaders).
 
About 100 professor pacs in the wild back in eary 80's...probably a couple dozen left now. You will find this info for some games but most of the smaller companys didnt keep good records and much of that info is long gone since most of the companys no longer exist. Probably the most accurate numbers will be from websites who track and record serial numbers for specific games. For example, dedicated JrPacs only produced about 700 of them. This number was derived from the fact that no serial numbers higher than that have been seen.
Im getting ready to launch my arcade site and will probably do a registry for some of the less common pac machines just to have a record of them.
 
I thought they made more Crystal castle games than that (Crystal Castles 4880) I have CC 484. I was just looking at my Gyruss looks like I have 0027 At least I guess that's the correct Serial number.

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I have a question...
It says 3 for Sinistar Cockpit. Does anyone know if thats right? I saw one just this morning. Non operational but the cab was intact and in decent shape. Pretty crazy lookin'
 
I have a question...
It says 3 for Sinistar Cockpit. Does anyone know if thats right? I saw one just this morning. Non operational but the cab was intact and in decent shape. Pretty crazy lookin'

considering cw125 (here in town) has one, and I know of another for sale near Dallas...
 
Mod - thanks so much for posting those ionpool links! I've been looking for the 720 production #s forever. I'm not sure how I missed that link. I've always wondered if they issued serial numbers in order, or skipped numbers, started in a range, or what.

The list says: 2265 were made.
On the registry we're up to 43 registered 720s. The first # we have is UR01005 - the last is UR03262.
So it looks like they were issued in order starting at UR01000.
 
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