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| lettuce:
I thought i read somewhere it was TMNT |
| DJ_Izumi:
Wikipedia does state that 350 000 units of Pac-Man machines were sold. That's... That's a hell of a lot of units for an arcade machine. |
| RayB:
It is, considering just 3 years later, a game like Crystal Castles saw barely 5000 units made. |
| taylormadelv:
Yeah and prices for cabs went down also. Tempest started selling at something like $2095 in 1980 but by 1983 they were something like $300 each! Funny how these wood boxes cleaned up so much cash in a short time, then retired to be forgotten, collected, hacked or mamed later on. |
| bertthedefender:
I'm in the UK and remember lots of dedicated Atari cabs as a young kid on summer trips to the beach: Asteroids, Battlezone, Star Wars, Sprint 2 etc In "Arcade Fever" http://www.amazon.com/ARCADE-FEVER-Guide-Golden-Video/dp/0762409371 the author states: 1) Pac Man 2) Donkey Kong 3) Asteroids (>70000) As the top 3 based on units shipped. But thats the only source of numbers I've ever read. |
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