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Title: 1980s Video Game Companies Factory Footage
Post by: vanrose72 on July 25, 2012, 06:45:49 am

The other day I found this YouTube video from Patrick Scott Patterson which shows the assembly of arcade cabinets in several video game company factories.


It includes the following footage:

- Midway MFG Co. (1981) - Assembling Pac-Man arcade cabinets

- Atari (1981) - Putting together a variety of classics, including Centipede

- Taito (1982) - Putting together what appears to be Alpine Ski, as well as a bench test of Wild Western

- Bally Midway (1982) - Putting together Tron with a cameo by Galaga's assembly line

- Nintendo (1989) - Howard Phillips playing Donkey Kong at Nintendo HQ, then the Super Famicom at his desk. Also a short look at one of the old game counselors.

- Nintendo Japan (1988) - Assembly line and warehouse shots from Nintendo's facilities in Japan, packaging up Super Mario Bros. 2 and Zelda II cartridges to send over to the States.


1980s Video Game Companies Factory Footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOh9HL-dOdQ#ws)

Title: Re: 1980s Video Game Companies Factory Footage
Post by: exph on July 28, 2012, 01:15:27 am

Hey vanrose72,
I haven't logged in, in years. However this video is so awesome I needed to give you props. Keep the arcade nostalgia coming. If you have netflix there is a pretty good pinball documentary and a Rock-A-Fire Explosion (Chuckee-Cheese audioanamatronic band) doc you may also like.

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Post by: SavannahLion on July 28, 2012, 02:39:02 am

That's kind of interesting.

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Post by: jimfath on July 28, 2012, 04:10:46 am

I totally forgot about Howard Philips. I think that was him at the end.

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Post by: Louis Tully on July 28, 2012, 05:58:47 am

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Post by: ark_ader on July 28, 2012, 12:42:39 pm

Very interesting.

Thanks for sharing.  :cheers:

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Post by: Howard_Casto on July 28, 2012, 05:00:15 pm

Quote from: jimfath on July 28, 2012, 04:10:46 am

I totally forgot about Howard Philips. I think that was him at the end.

Boy I haven't.  There weren't a lot of famous Howards in history.  I personally loved the guy, but imagine being a very little kid known to love nintendo and having a guy look like that working for them.  Needless to say it was ALMOST as bad as the whole Howard the Duck disaster.  ;)

Title: Re: 1980s Video Game Companies Factory Footage
Post by: vanrose72 on July 29, 2012, 07:04:23 am

Quote from: exph on July 28, 2012, 01:15:27 am

Hey vanrose72,
I haven't logged in, in years. However this video is so awesome I needed to give you props. Keep the arcade nostalgia coming. If you have netflix there is a pretty good pinball documentary and a Rock-A-Fire Explosion (Chuckee-Cheese audioanamatronic band) doc you may also like.

Thanks for the props, exph! I find it interesting that we view these old cabinets as sacred relics these days, but we see that back then they were treated like ordinary products in a factory.


I subscribe to Netflix and have watched "Special When Lit" and "The Rock-Afire Explosion" about five to ten times each (and "Chasing Ghosts" about 20 times).  :laugh:  Yeah, I'm as nostalgic as they come!

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Post by: Silas (son of Silas) on July 30, 2012, 03:54:42 pm

I Love this.... Great find.

Thanks for posting this.  :applaud:

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Post by: Gray_Area on August 05, 2012, 07:56:18 pm

Game counselor?

Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 28, 2012, 05:00:15 pm

...imagine being a very little kid known to love nintendo and having a guy look like that working for them.  Needless to say it was ALMOST as bad as the whole Howard the Duck disaster.  ;)

Look like what?

Title: Re: 1980s Video Game Companies Factory Footage
Post by: Player 3 on August 05, 2012, 08:01:29 pm

That's a lot more demand than I anticipated to produce hundreds of cabinets a day.