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CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: neil324 on April 07, 2010, 05:28:08 pm ---Interesting numbers. Some seem low to me(Missle Command). I remember when i went on holidays in the early eighties(UK)that the large arcades had multiple cabinets of the most popular games sometimes as many as 5. Most of these cabinets would be best described as jamma and not dedicated with a no artwork only a marque, but the jamma standard started in 1985, maybe my memory and dates are playing tricks, but most of my gaming experience was done on non dedicated machines for sure. The only mass dedicated machine that i remember seeing everywhere, even going shopping with my mom there was one at the checkouts was Space Invaders.

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You were in the UK -- you were sadly deprived of the glory of dedicated cabinets that we enjoyed here in North America.

The Atari numbers are probably pretty accurate as much of the documentation was saved.

For example, Atari Production Numbers Memo

neil324:


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on April 07, 2010, 05:41:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: neil324 on April 07, 2010, 05:28:08 pm ---Interesting numbers. Some seem low to me(Missle Command). I remember when i went on holidays in the early eighties(UK)that the large arcades had multiple cabinets of the most popular games sometimes as many as 5. Most of these cabinets would be best described as jamma and not dedicated with a no artwork only a marque, but the jamma standard started in 1985, maybe my memory and dates are playing tricks, but most of my gaming experience was done on non dedicated machines for sure. The only mass dedicated machine that i remember seeing everywhere, even going shopping with my mom there was one at the checkouts was Space Invaders.

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You were in the UK -- you were sadly deprived of the glory of dedicated cabinets that we enjoyed here in North America.

The Atari numbers are probably pretty accurate as much of the documentation was saved.

For example, Atari Production Numbers Memo

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Deprived  :'(

So any pre 1985 machine that looked like a jamma was infact us Brits getting palmed of with chunk then  :dizzy:

CheffoJeffo:

Yeah, you guys got shorted on the cool cabinet designs, although Atari did build in Ireland, so I would have expected that you would have seen some cool Atari cabs around.

councilface:

What I can remember in the UK during the golden years was an incredible amount of Bootlegged machines. I think they were mainly Italian?

MaximRecoil:

I've seen the following claim in various places:

Defender Factoids:
- Released in 1980 by manufacturer Williams.
- Has reportedly grossed (Arcade revenue) over one billion dollars world wide since it's release, making Defender one of the highest grossing video games ever made. Paralleled only by Pac Man.
- Was considered an arcade flop at the 1981 Chicago arcade machine trade show.
- Spawned a sequal Defender 2 a.k.a Stargate.

That of course is another revenue claim; not a units sold claim; though I would think that the two would be somewhat related.

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