Inside Video Game Factories of the 1980s

posted June 20, 2012 by Joel Stice

Get an inside look into the humble beginnings of gaming production with this montage of the factory floors of several gaming companies in the early 1980s. It's a fascinating glimpse at just how much work went into putting together those coveted arcade cabinets. As cool as the video is, it pretty much shatters the fantasy I had as a kid of how much fun working for a game company would have been. Whether it's stuffing boxes with Metroid 2 or putting together auto parts, an assembly line is still an assembly line.