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Author Topic: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory  (Read 3672 times)

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4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« on: December 18, 2012, 06:47:49 pm »

It's not all fun and games.
Still I found this raw footage worth a watch...



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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2012, 08:00:43 pm »
This is so awesome!

There needs to be a "How It's Made" episode on building arcades.

I can see the epic puns already....."Building Pac-Man arcade systems, We will show you how they create games one bite at a time" - epic pun queen  :lol

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2012, 08:29:26 pm »
Pretty cool... makes me wonder, did my Pac Mame start as one of those cabs...?
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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2012, 09:37:26 am »
Good video. Thanks for posting.

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2012, 12:08:15 pm »
Dayum!  I coulda used one of those pneumatic zip-tie thingies!!! :applaud:



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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2012, 01:00:22 pm »
Dayum!  I coulda used one of those pneumatic zip-tie thingies!!! :applaud:


All I could think of was the PITA clipping all of them was when I stripped my Ms. Pac. The zip-tie lady did her job very well!
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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2012, 03:12:37 pm »
Dayum!  I coulda used one of those pneumatic zip-tie thingies!!! :applaud:


All I could think of was the PITA clipping all of them was when I stripped my Ms. Pac. The zip-tie lady did her job very well!

yeah how cool is that?!?! Now i don't feel so bad when i have to chop a harness apart and cut apart some ladys hard work...ziip ziiip ziiiip.  :lol

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2012, 11:55:30 pm »
I woulda got in trouble with that blonde at :50. Ba-boom!

Anyone notice the blue/red board bug at 2:32?  (Can't hardly see the read, though.)

I wonder how tired they got of hearing Ms Pac....

Also, note the to comment.
« Last Edit: December 21, 2012, 11:57:37 pm by Gray_Area »
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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2012, 01:01:56 am »
I woulda got in trouble with that blonde at :50. Ba-boom!

yeah, she's got a rack on her! va va voom!

 ::) :lol i love the 80's

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2012, 11:34:53 am »
Longer video in the you tube description. http://mediaburn.org/video/wired-in-raw-28/

*edit* oh wow a series of old footage. http://mediaburn.org/page/1/?s=wired+in+raw



good day.
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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2012, 12:01:09 pm »
Longer video in the you tube description. http://mediaburn.org/video/wired-in-raw-28/
*edit* oh wow a series of old footage. http://mediaburn.org/page/1/?s=wired+in+raw
good day.

Thank you for this  ;D

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2012, 09:19:46 pm »
I woulda got in trouble with that blonde at :50. Ba-boom!

yeah, she's got a rack on her! va va voom!

 ::) :lol i love the 80's

No no, the one after her. The pear with a decent caboose. Terrible posture, though.
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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2012, 04:48:11 pm »
*edit* oh wow a series of old footage. http://mediaburn.org/page/1/?s=wired+in+raw

I found the interview with Bally Midway's Marketing VP Stanley Jarocki to be interesting as well. The company was riding high on the success of Pac-Man back in '82, that's for sure.

It seems as if Jarocki saw the home video game console as nothing more than a tool to get people accustomed to video games and more willing to pump quarters into the arcade machines.

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2012, 08:47:03 pm »
these girls soldering without a mask like a baws :dizzy:

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2012, 09:10:58 am »
these girls soldering without a mask like a baws :dizzy:

mask  ???

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2012, 10:17:50 am »
these girls soldering without a mask like a baws :dizzy:

mask  ???

I thought you could tell if it was soldered properly by the smell.

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2012, 02:47:36 pm »
.........wut?

you LOOK and make sure its shinny.

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2012, 03:56:49 pm »
Actually, with my solder-fu, I usually stop when everything plastic connected to whatever I'm soldering starts to melt.  :angry:

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2012, 05:45:44 pm »
Actually, with my solder-fu, I usually stop when everything plastic connected to whatever I'm soldering starts to melt.  :angry:

 :laugh2:

I tend to hold my breath, like a sniper about to take his shot.

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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2012, 11:12:34 pm »
I found the interview with Bally Midway's Marketing VP Stanley Jarocki to be interesting as well. The company was riding high on the success of Pac-Man back in '82, that's for sure.

It seems as if Jarocki saw the home video game console as nothing more than a tool to get people accustomed to video games and more willing to pump quarters into the arcade machines.

I remember that absurd idea. Even as a kid I knew home computers and stuff was the future.....which is why I waited until the future to get one.



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No nooo. You inhale, exhale, squeeze the trigger.
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Re: 4½ minutes in the Bally/Midway factory
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2012, 11:31:34 pm »
You knew what I meant  :D