Video of Trons being factory assembled!

Thanks for that.

Very funny in some parts - 10:35 = Dr Marvin Monroe from the Simpsons.

around 5:30 - I want that off the factory floor Tron Shroud for my restoration!
 
Seeing that factory was great. Also I can't believe the market size they were talking about in billions of dollars.
 
What was the deal with the Taito game "Toasters and Chainsaws" that they showed in the video?


I was thinking the same thing, that game isn't even listed on KLOV. Maybe the Taito geeks were messing with the reporter??
 
Awesome! I love stuff like that. All those Tron cabinets. Just makes you wonder how many are still around and which ones have since met a fiery death. Seeing all the empty Taito cabs in a row was cool too. If I had a time machine, the first place I would go would be the Midway factory in early October 1980 and watch Pacs being built. That would be the ultimate head trip for me. Thanks for the vid.
 
What are the other games in this shot, besides Berserk and Defender?

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Thanks for sharing.

Notice the bar stools. I've been looking for these for a long time. Yeah you can get barstools but I want some from the era. Anyone know a source?
 
This video is amazing but bittersweet. I already watched the scene showing the arcade production workers and assembly line half a dozen times. First I watched it for the machines. It is surreal watching somebody pop in a brand new monitor shroud into a brand new Tron cabinet.

Then I started watching it because I saw a bunch of people from Chicago/America working in a manufacturing plant. This is gone. Bally/Midway is gone. Manufacturing has all gone overseas. It is hard to believe that this is how things used to be.

That being said, watching this video is both inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.
 
Meh.. "aero-plane"? (said during Zaxxon footage), and "guh-LAH-ga?" C'mon dude.

(great classic vid footage tho)
 
This video is amazing but bittersweet. I already watched the scene showing the arcade production workers and assembly line half a dozen times. First I watched it for the machines. It is surreal watching somebody pop in a brand new monitor shroud into a brand new Tron cabinet.

Then I started watching it because I saw a bunch of people from Chicago/America working in a manufacturing plant. This is gone. Bally/Midway is gone. Manufacturing has all gone overseas. It is hard to believe that this is how things used to be.

That being said, watching this video is both inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.

I have to agree with this. I too was thinking...Man, look at all the jobs the arcade industry created.

I didn't really think about this until I saw the woman putting on the Galaga CPO by hand. I really do wish that those days - meaning days of jobs in this country - would somehow find a way back here.

Anyway, that was a really great video to watch. I'll have to show it to my kids so they can have a glimpse of what it all looked like BITD.

Tom
 
I liked the poor man's Bob Schieffer.

And who knew it was "the Bally company" that gave us "Defenders and Asteroids"?
 
I didn't know that Midway gave us Asteroids :)
 
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