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What was the point of sideart in the 80's?

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ChadTower:


When you're talking about a $4000 investment into what is essentially $750 in physical parts, you'd damn well better drop an extra $250 on the packaging and make it pretty.

PoDunkMoFo:

Screen printed graphics are very inexpensive to produce.  I would guess that in house screen printing depending on the number of colors were less than $20 per side.  Remember the expense in screen printing is in the setup if your quantities are high enough dividing that cost out over the quantity produced makes it very reasonable.  After setup your talking about your only expense being labor and the price of the inks (when printed directly).

If you buy a repro inkjet print or even a repro short run decal your price is many many times higher than what it cost the arcade companies to do them back in the day (even if you adjust for inflation).

That's my two-cents anyways.



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