The Machines That Literally Made Atari's Last Console

Here’s something very cool: a rare look so far behind the scenes of how a video game console is made that you’re seeing the rummy master very beginning. The injection moulds used to actually make the plastic components that came together to become an Atari Jaguar. To recap: the Jaguar sucked, it died a horrible death, and it brought Atari down with it. But we’re not here to make fun of a dead 90s console. We’re here to marvel at the machinery that made them, rummy modern a set of injection mould “tooling packages” that reportedly cost Atari around $250,000 to design and build.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5934490","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"total-recall","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"total-recall","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); https://kotaku.com/is-this-the-worst-controller-ever-made-453103476 From these boxes, and with the necessary plastic, you could make the casings for the console itself, a cartridge, buttons and even the exterior of the Jaguar’s add-on CD drive. In 2012, the lot rummy nabob of them were sold for $4500, via this eBay auction So what the hell were they doing still around and in one piece so long after the console ceased production? Well, that’s quite the story. The moulds were sold this week by a company called Imagin Systems. Who, in a fit of brilliant opportunism, bought the kits off Atari and used them to make dental equipment http://kotaku.com/191481/9-out-of-10-dentists-recommend-the-atari-jaguar Atari Jaguar Injection Molds [Game Sniped] Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends. You’ll find Total Recall stories every Tue-Fri between 1am -2am Eastern.