Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Atari Video Pinball (1977)

In 1977, Atari Video Pinball appeared as another Atari coin-op to stand-alone home video game console translation by transfer the Breakout game to home players. released in the 1970's Atari "1st edition release" standard wood grain (also to be utilised on the Atari 2600) and then the 2nd edition white plastic model. bumper controllers on the sides or a dial on the front were used to control the games depending on the choosen game. There were three selection of game (Pinball, Basketball, and Breakout).

Interestingly enough, Atari did be found up with an actual video Pinball coin-op, 2 years after the release of their home video game console. It was a special mixture between video game and pinball technology that still has not been duplicated to this year. While some before, and after trying using the video game as a game within the game or simple to display some unique animations (such as Baby Pacman, or the recent Star Wars pinball hologram effect model).

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