A batch of previously unseen videos from the Golden Age of coin-operated gaming for you this week. Lyle Raines was one of Atari Coin-Op’s most influential employees. He arrived at Atari with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California in Berkeley, where he graduated in 1973. He had a big…
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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….
How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
One of the most fascinating sequences in Atari’s arcade manufacturing process in the early 80s, was the application of the fabulous artwork that adorned all of its cabinets from the golden age of arcade gaming. So this week, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how this cabinet artwork was actually…
Atari Pole Position: Factory Assembly Line Footage
The development and release of Pole Position is probably worthy of an in depth deep dive for another time, so look out for that in a future post. In the meantime, I’ve come across some more extended footage of the game being constructed on Atari’s assembly lines that I wanted to share. If memory serves…
Vintage Vault – The Arcade by the Lake
Mukwonago, Wisconsin (pronounced muck‑WONN‑a‑go) isn’t the sort of place you’d expect to find one of the Midwest’s strongest arcade lineups, but that’s exactly what Vintage Vault Arcade delivers. A recent visit to Milwaukee (for the Midwest Gaming Classic event) allowed me to take some time out to find this arcade that I’d heard good things…
The TDE Podcast Ep 36: Strong Museum Assistant VP Jeremy Saucier
Episode 36 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: Jeremy Saucier is Assistant VP at The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Jeremy talks to us about the history and evolution of the Strong…
Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Cabinet Production
Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated (which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose). I just wanted to clarify that it is not. It would be pretty daft of me to knowingly post AI generated footage on a blog…
The TDE Podcast Ep 35: Atari Inc Coin-Op Engineer Jeff Bell
Episode 35 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: Jeff Bell was a hardware engineer in Atari Inc’s coin-op division and officially the longest serving employee of the company; literally the last person to switch off…
Bally Midway’s Stanley Jarocki
Sad news to report on the blog this week. Midway’s Director of Marketing during the Golden Era of classic arcade gaming passed away on 14 May 2024 aged 94. He lived out his later years in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jarocki’s influence on the industry should not be underestimated. He was the king of the Japanese…
The TDE Podcast Ep 34: Pong Creator Al Alcorn
Episode 34 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: For this episode we speak with none other than Allan Alcorn, Atari employee number three after Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, and the engineer of Pong, one…