> What you’re seeing there, isn’t a giant sticker being applied.

I thought it worth mentioning that stickers were in the mix too. In the town I grew up in, there was a printing company that made them for Atari. I recall being brought to a "local industry expo" event as a kid, and I have a vivid memory of seeing heavy-duty vinyl (?) stickers for "Pole Position" at this company's stand. They would have been designed to be applied to the marquees and control panels of the upright cabinet.

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Animats 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Again, volume. The Atari cabinet shown was a low-volume product. Pole Position was a high-volume product.

	▲	ts4z 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think so. The cabinets were silk screened, but the control panels and marquees were different. The marquees, in particular, are large vinyl stickers that cover glass. Control panels were generally not silk-screened, either. Volume was roughly similar (thousands to low tens of thousands of cabinets). Things differed from game to game over time. My Missile Command had a silkscreened control panel, but I think they went to overlays which were more durable and could be replaced.