More Tales From the Arcade Factory Floors

Thought it was about time we did another one of these. Looking through my archives, I found a bunch of arcade production line photographs that to my knowledge, haven’t been shared before. I originally posted some arcade factory pictures exactly a decade ago here – which is also worth checking out if you missed it. (Holy smokes, is the blog really over 10 years old now?) We’re going to jump around a bit, and these images are in no particular order, but let’s start at the fledgling early years of the arcade industry with a newspaper clipping from late 1972 which shows and details Atari’s Pong production facility in Santa Clara, CA: Note: the site has a bug currently, which appears to be reducing the display size of some images. Just click on each image to view its full size. (A fix is incoming): Click the image for a bigger version to read the copy And fast forward to March 1974. This image shows Atari’s Quadrapong being built at the same factory. It was a groundbreaking four-player…