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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 Univers

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 a

Some sad news to share on the blog this week: the passing of Exidy co-founder and arcade pioneer Howell Ivy. His impact on the early years of arcade gaming cannot be underestimated. After serving in the US Air Force, working on missile instrumentation and

Episode 39 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: The Ted Dabney Experience Episode 39. Click to listen! Rob Quinn joined

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 interest

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 assembl

Episode 38 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: The Ted Dabney Experience Episode 38: Click to listen in Mark Pierce was

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 knowing