Not only that, you will not find another Atari Football in this condition regarding the price.
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This machine went under the full restoration process, and in the end retains 100% of the investment. cabinet (wood grain) was damaged and the graphics were poor.The cardboard bezel for the monitor (in the shape of a stadium) was deteriorated and had liquid damage from years of drinks spilled into the machine.The monitor powered up but was pretty sad and had an unstable and horrible picture.Now I remember the injuries people suffered on this machine (busted fingers, welts on their palms, huge blisters from pinches between the ball and housing. The balls themselves are almost 5 lbs each (larger and heavier than Bocce balls to give you a reference). After finally sourcing all the components to rebuild the trackballs in new condition, I realized why they went to joysticks. This machine needed to be converted back to the way people remembered it… with those huge trackballs. So, while that is interesting and all, we’re were not going to keep it that way. I have never seen that before, nor have I read about it in any of the forums that cover the restoration of this machine. The circuits, connectors, and joysticks were all period specific items and all factory made. What this means is that, for some reason which I can only imagine is because of lawsuits due customer injury), that Atari had actually changed their design in the latter portion of the manufacturing of this machine to use joysticks. Ok, I was showing off there because I actually knew what it was as soon as I saw it (back from when I designed one in my Electrical Engineering lab). Upon flipping open the hood, I saw that this machine had custom PCBs to convert the digital 8-way joystick signals to differential pulsed voltage outputs via multiple astable multivibrator circuits. But after disassembling the machine, I realized it was no retrofit at all. Originally, I just scoffed at the retrofit thinking it was probably the best a route operator could do in order to get the machine back out making money.
The odd part of this machine was that it was equipped with joysticks in place of where the trackballs would reside. The donor machine was actually in reasonable physical condition, given the number of years on the clock and knowing how much of a beating these machines took on a daily basis.
This is Atari Football – reborn and just as glorious as ever. Head to head action football using X’s and O’s like that of how a college football coach would draw up a play. This machine was something totally different. The one everyone crowded around as they watched 2 people frantically spinning over-sized trackballs in opposite directions. Many of you my age (ahem) may remember this ominous bar-table size stand up arcade in the corner of the arcade.
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