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Atari Football (フットボール)

Released in 1978

Member Rating


(4 total votes)

Manufacturer: Atari
Distributor: Kee
Developer: Atari
Distributor: Atari

Mame ROM Info
atarifb4, Atari Football (4 players)

Display
Raster
Orientation
Horizontal
Resolution
304 x 256
Colors
3, B/W
Genre
Sport
Attributes
2D
Controls
Trakball / Button(s)
Size/Weight of Cocktail
30.0000 " x 44.0000" x 25.2500" , 250.00lb.

Game Summary

Black-and-white head-to-head football for two or four players. First arcade game to use a trackball as the controller.

Hardware Info

M6502 cpu @ 0.75 Mhz
DAC audio
DAC audio
DAC audio

Hardware Platform: -Unique or Unknown-

Game Details

An early game for two or four players. Players stand across a table and each controls their players with a trackball and a button to select plays.

In the two-player version, one player is offense, the other defense. In the four-player, one person plays quarterback, the other receiver when on offense. Football players on screen are represented by x's and o's.

Coinop.org Member Ratings / Comments

by elmcitystu. Comment: "A true classic, I bought one on eBay a couple of years ago, and it's still working. I need some competition! I'm in Northern NJ - e-mail me at elmcitystu(at)yahoo.com if you want to play." (2006-02-28 22:07:41Z)

by cyclone. Comment: "I just purchased one on e-bay and really forgot how much I enjoyed this game. It is a workout and something my son enjoys now too. I am in need of another button for the play selection but can't seem to find one. I would love some help. Thanks" (2006-01-23 15:54:06Z)

by rdj3. Comment: "this game was a hit for me and 3 other friends now i want one for my kids!" (2005-01-05 20:14:13Z)

by jonny_street. Comment: "After playing this, it felt like you really had a 400 yd passing game. We would move the cabinet further from the wall, because by half time you arm was getting ready to fall off. You either used your other hand or stood to the side of the game so your right-hand & arm were moving in a different direction. It only offered 4 different plays on both offense & defense and the graphics were simple "X's & O's", but there was nothing else like it!!! Madden just recently retired and the only other football games were electric, with vibrating plastic players that went around in circles. This game not only let you control the action, you had to physically make it happen. There have been no other games, except the 4-man that will challenge your physical stamina as Atari Football. When the 4-man unit came out, this unit was given to me and became the 1st Video Game in my collection, which is still operating in my Rec-Rm today!!" (2003-04-20 02:38:04Z)

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'Atari Football' cabinet photo
cabinet photo
'Atari Football' control panel
control panel
'Atari Football' promotional flyer
promotional flyer

"Maybe" Images

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4 Player Football Flyer: 1 Front 4 Player Football Flyer: 2 Back

Knowledge Base

/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinematronics-history.txt
THE HISTORY OF CINEMATRONICS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR VECTOR GAMES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---- COPYRIGHT 1994, 1995 REVISION NUMBER: 2.0 REVISION DATE: 23 December 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (02/11/92 - First attempt at listing and ordering all Cinematronics games.) REVISION HISTORY: 2.0 (12/23/94 - Rearranged sections, added new sections for Barrier, Speed Freak, Boxing Bugs,
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinematronics-history.txt - 50 K - Updated 1994.12.28
JAMMA/AAMA Standard Connector Pinouts and JAMMA Game list
JAMMA/AAMA Standard Connector Pinouts and JAMMA Game List
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/jamma tech.html - 46 K - Updated 2002.05.17
Arcade PCB Pinouts
Arcade Pinouts 1,003 Entries Last Updated: May30, 2003
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/pinout.html - 119 K - Updated 2003.05.30
1996.09.29 GUIDE TO LOWER MAINLAND ARCADES
VERSION 1.0a : 1996.09.29 by Glenn Tarigan Additional comments by "Moby" Henry Kong Andrew Chang Feel free to distribute this document. Make sure the credits remain intact. I'd like to get some comments, especially from people who have been to any of the arcades mentioned here. What can I do to improve this guide? Do you have any details or opinions to add? Note: "Lower Mainland" refers to a southwest portion of British Columbia, Canada. The major arcades listed so far
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/faq-1996 lwr mainland arcades.html - 54 K - Updated 2000.02.20
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/foot_ball.txt
Atari's Football (C)1978, 2 player version. ------------------------------------------- Note: Pins listed as (L) are marked as active low. 44 position edge connector: Pin Description Color ---- ------------------------------ --------- 1 16.5 VCT GND R/GN A 16.5 VCT GND R/GN 2 +10V Unreg R/BK B +10V Unreg R/BK 3 Watchdog Disable
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/foot_ball.txt - 2 K - Updated 2003.01.06
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax84.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1984 Jed Margolin ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: KIM::SUTTLES 9-JAN-1984 11:40 To: @SYS$MAIL:COINOP Subj: A neat trick with mail For all of you who use the MAIL program as a form of the "paperless office", I have discovered a bug (pronounced "fea-ture") in same. It seems that the addressee line (TO: ...) is parsed independently of file handling. Mail looks at each item in the list, and checks for a double colon
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax84.txt - 281 K - Updated 2004.09.13
Early Atari documentation list
Submitted by Gregg Woodcock (woodcock@bnr.ca) Here is a pretty complete list of documentation for Atari's early arcade video games. Note that "TM" stands for "Technical Manual" and "DP" stands for "Drawing Package [supplement]" which was later renamed to "SP" which stands for "Supplement Package". I am not sure what "CO" stands for but the "C" could be for "Correction" because most of the CO documents were errata or addendums to the manuals. In addition, most Atari games had "ST" documents which w
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/earlyataridocs.html - 6 K - Updated 2000.01.20
A Random Games-list
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/listbyyear.txt
'H','R','B','Computer Space','Nutting Assoc',1971 'H','R','B','Pong','Atari',1972 'H','R','B','Astro Hockey','Brunswick',1973 'H','R','B','Astro Race','Taito(japan)',1973 'H','R','B','Davis Cup','Taito(japan)',1973 'H','R','B','Elepong','Taito(japan)',1973 'U','R','B','Elimination','Atari/Kee',1973 'H','R','B','Gotcha','Atari',1973 'H','R','C','Gotcha Color','Atari',1973 'H','R','B','Hockey','Ramtek',1973 'H','R','B','Hockey TV','Sega(japan)',1973 'H','R','B','Leader','Midway',1973 'H','R','B','
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/listbyyear.txt - 18 K - Updated 1999.07.10
The Bronze Age (1971 to 1980) Video Game List
Vers 2.7 May 12, 1998 additions/corrections to aek@spies.com and kk@clickto.com Note: Date may either be release date, date from a manual or schematic, or the date that a game appears in a publication Monitor Type ------------ H-- = Horizontal V-- = Vertical -R- = Raster -V- = Vector --B = B&W --O = Color Overlay --C = Color --P = Projection Name Manuf Date uP Man/ROM # ---- ----- -
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/list-bronzeagebyyear.html - 30 K - Updated 1999.10.29
LIST: JAMMA Games
H '88 Games Konami 1988 JAMMA 1941 Capcom 1990 JAMMA V 1943: The Battle of Midway Capcom 1988 JAMMA H 3 Wonders Capcom 1991 JAMMA H 9 Ball Shoot Out Bundra JAMMA V Aero Fighters McO'River 1992 JAMMA H Air Buster Namcoi/Kaneko 1990 JAMMA V Ajax
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/list-jamma.html - 27 K - Updated 2000.06.20
Yet Another List
O-Taito is the Old Taito pinout on wiretap. N-Taito is the New-Taito pinout (Like Elevator Action). Quote by R. Schieve: "Taito.pin will match most for power, ground, monitor, and speaker connections but inputs are usually quite different." DECO/Data East is the Data East pinout. See Ring King.pin or KarateChamp.pin.I AtariV is Black Widow and Gravitar and Space Duel Konami if the Konami pinout. See Konami\Rush'n'Attack.pin. BZone is Battle Zone and Red Baron Tehkan games seem to follow th
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Bally Midway MCR System Games FAQ
********************************* Bally Midway MCR System Games FAQ version 1.0 Writers Mark Jenison Clay Cowgill ********************************* I. Introduction II. The MCR system classes A. CPU's 1. MCR (I) 2. MCR II 3. MCR III B. Super Sound I/O C. Video 1. Video Generator II 2. Video Generato
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/faq-bally midway mcr games.html - 24 K - Updated 1999.10.29
LIST: Atari Games
ROMs Manuals Game Name -------------- --------- --------------------------------------- 422 Super Pong TM-001 Mazer Blazer TM-004 Gran Trak 20 TM-008 Qwak TM-010 Tank TM-011 Gran Trak 10 TM-019 Pursuit TM-021 Twin Racer TM-025 Anti-Aircraft TM-027 Jet Fighte
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/list-atari.html - 11 K - Updated 1999.07.27
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax86.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1986 Jed Margolin ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: ERNIE::GRAHAM 2-JAN-1986 10:21:33.70 To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK CC: Subj: ATARI GAMES 401-K PLAN John Klein asked me to put the following memo out on junk mail: TO: All Employees FROM: John Klein/Dennis Wood We are quite pleased to report that our 401-K Plan has gotten off to an excellent start. As of today we had 118 employees making contributions to the Plan. We encour
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax86.txt - 342 K - Updated 2004.09.13
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/mcrfaq.txt
********************************* Bally Midway MCR System Games FAQ version 1.0 Writers Mark Jenison Clay Cowgill ********************************* I. Introduction II. The MCR system classes A. CPU's 1. MCR (I) 2. MCR II 3. MCR III B. Super Sound I/O C. Video 1. Video Generator II
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/mcrfaq.txt - 24 K - Updated 2002.12.06
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/football.txt
Atari's Football (C)1978, 2 player version. Keyed in by Corey Stup (cstup@coplex.com) November 15, 1993. Any other questions about this game, you can reach me at the above address. (I still have the full service manual, as well as 2 working boards) Note: Pins listed as (L) are marked as active low. 44 position edge connector: Pin Description Color ---- ------------------------------ --------- 1 16.5 VCT GND R/GN A 16.5 VC
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/football.txt - 2 K - Updated 1993.11.23
The REAL "PONG" FAQ Version 1.02
10 Nov.1997 Creator & Maintainer: Sly D.C. *** Special Edition *** O.K.,Here's the legal stuff: Copyright (c) 1997, Sylvain De Chantal All rights reserved. This document may be copied, in whole or in part, by any means provided the copyright and contributors sections remain intact and no fee is charged for the information. Contributors retain the copyright to their individual contributions. The data contained here in is provided for informational purposes
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/faq-pong.html - 28 K - Updated 1999.10.30
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax89.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1989 Jed Margolin ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: KIM::HALLY 3-JAN-1989 09:01:01.61 To: DENCKER,RAY,HALLY,ROTBERG,BURGESS,MARGOLIN,COMSTOCK,NOBLE,MOSER ,DIEKNEITE,FULLER,GROSSMAN CC: Subj: S.T.U.N. TEAM last update: 1/3/89 Project: S.T.U.N. RUNNER (571) Planned Field Test: FEB. 89 Planned Finished Goods Assy. JUNE 89 Project Leader: MIKE HALLY Programmer(s): ED ROTBERG ANDY BURGESS Engineer:
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax89.txt - 403 K - Updated 2004.09.13
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax91.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1991 Jed Margolin ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: GAWD::MCCARTHY "Pat" 2-JAN-1991 12:37:15.74 To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK CC: MCCARTHY Subj: New employee. If you haven't already noticed or been introduced, we have a new employee starting today. His name is John Moore. He is a hardware design engineer in the Electrical Design group, reporting to me. His office is the corner cubicle just outside my office. Drop by and say Hi. ____
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax91.txt - 834 K - Updated 2004.09.13
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax90.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1990 Jed Margolin ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: BERT::LTURNER 2-JAN-1990 15:43:12.18 To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY CC: LTURNER Subj: New Baby This is to annouce the arrival of a new addition at the Moore house. His name is Evan Alexander Bettencourt Moore. He was born on Saturday, December 30, at 10:21A. Weight -- 7 lbs 10 oz Height -- 20 1/2 inches Mother and baby are home and doing well. ____________________________
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax92.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1992 Jed Margolin ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: BERT::FRANCES 2-JAN-1992 17:56:52.97 To: MARGOLIN CC: Subj: PHONE MESSAGE DAN ASH 879-3037 10:27AM NEW 2101 MATERIAL HAS NO BUGS. CALL MARGO FOR MORE INFO. ________________________________________________________________ ___________ From: BERT::BROWN 3-JAN-1992 19:39:22.02 To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY CC: BROWN Subj: PREMIUM PAYMENT PLAN, MODIFIED CAFETERIA PLAN
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