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... I have some incredible and previously unseen footage of Battlezone cabinets being built at Atari from late summer/early fall 1980.

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The video I’m sharing today comes from inside Atari’s Coin-Op Manufacturing Facility at Sunnyvale, California, and although there’s no narration, it doesn’t need any. The footage speaks for itself.

Very cool! I loved playing that game back when I was a kid. It's really neat that the pictures and video footage of the production exist.

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 ...

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