Atari Arcade Design Collection

[TL]

As casual gamers or hardened retro fanatics, we sometimes forget the development process that ensued for months or years prior to our dropping quarters (or 10p's) into coin-slots or nestling a cart into an Atari 2600. I'm sure there are troves of CAD schematics and concept art for every arcade cabinet we have ever professed our love for.

As luck would have it, The International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) has acquired over 250 original concept drawings and designs for Atari arcade games produced between 1974 and 1989.

Read the article in full here: http://www.8-bitcentral.com/blog/2012/a ... signs.html

[TrekMD]

Pretty interesting!

[Greyfox]

Some amazing work here, thanx Laird for this one..great netting

[tomwaits]

Excellent stuff! ICHEG is 6 hours 18 minutes from my house... hmmm...  if I drive that far maybe I should take the kids to Niagara Falls for a couple minutes too.

[onthinice]

Wow! Pack Rat was actually a real concept. Seen it on one of the shows my kids watch. Thought it was just a take on Mouse Trap and Puck-Man.