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Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« on: January 11, 2021, 01:21:24 pm »
Looks good:



This retro Pong® 4 Player Pub Table plays great, look great, and will be an instant conversation piece. And yep, it has a clear cover top, to protect from those accidental spills.

What games are included? Eight Atari classics that ushered in the video game era: Pong®, Quadra Pong, Pong Doubles®, Warlords®, Pong® Sports, Circus Atari®, Tempest®, and Super Breakout®. Switch up games anytime you’d like.

https://arcade1up.com/products/pong-4-player-pub-table

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2021, 09:44:25 pm »
Warlords is a great one. The problem I have anymore is finding 3 other players. I'm also worried the spinners are the crummy gen1 spinners they used from the wave1 asteroids.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2021, 09:12:16 am »
Warlords is a great one. The problem I have anymore is finding 3 other players. I'm also worried the spinners are the crummy gen1 spinners they used from the wave1 asteroids.

they're not. but i would replace them anyways.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2021, 07:29:23 pm »
commercial for pong table, love it:



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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2021, 02:32:45 am »
I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I got my first Telstar for my birthday.

Everyone from school wanted to come over and play on it, sadly nobody placed any quarters on the tv..

The game's simplicity draws attention even today.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2021, 09:17:44 am »
Is this actually bar/counter height so you can stand at it or is this another "too tiny for any adult to play on" situation?

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2021, 09:56:21 am »
Best buy lists it at just under 40", so not too bad.

Is the thing playing all arcade versions? I ask, because AFAIK, Circus Atari was only called that on the 2600. The actual arcade game was just called Circus.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2021, 02:20:13 pm »
Best buy lists it at just under 40", so not too bad.

Is the thing playing all arcade versions? I ask, because AFAIK, Circus Atari was only called that on the 2600. The actual arcade game was just called Circus.

They claim its arcade ROMS, so i'll go with that for now.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2021, 04:55:08 am »
Well arcade pong is solid state electronics, it doesn't have roms so.....   Yeah they are using crappy ports of some of the games most likely.   This would be consistent with everything the company that now holds the Atari license has done over the past few years.   

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2021, 09:21:44 am »
Well arcade pong is solid state electronics, it doesn't have roms so.....   Yeah they are using crappy ports of some of the games most likely.   This would be consistent with everything the company that now holds the Atari license has done over the past few years.

Nobody expects an FPGA simulation or such, and its pong, so how hard can it be.

Expectations are not that high for accuracy, and does anyone really care. No.

They'll still sell out.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2021, 04:36:19 pm »
Call me crazy but when a product is advertised as the arcade version of Pong, I expect the arcade version of Pong.   At least if I were a typical uneducated consumer.   

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2021, 05:01:50 pm »
Call me crazy but when a product is advertised as the arcade version of Pong, I expect the arcade version of Pong.   At least if I were a typical uneducated consumer.
It’s ok to half-ass it dude. They’ll sell out!!!!


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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2021, 03:33:46 am »
Call me crazy but when a product is advertised as the arcade version of Pong, I expect the arcade version of Pong.   At least if I were a typical uneducated consumer.

I don't think the arcade version of pong, is the arcade version of pong, and i've played it.

Does it have the same analog distortion in the sound? Do the controls show the same variable tension
in the spinners on every machine. There was wide variation on all the pong atari versions, and numerous clones I ever played.

So, no, going by some Arcade 'standard' pong, was pretty much undoable, even when they were in the arcades.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2021, 04:39:28 pm »
You've always got an answer, even if it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.  Of course clone versions of pong aren't like the original.... because they are clones.   Re-creating the original arcade version of pong is quite easy as the original schematics are available and even better someone took the crusty old 1974 schematics, cleaned them up and converted them into 16 easy to read circuits.

Here you go.... pong:

http://atarihq.com/danb/files/PongSchematic.pdf

As they have the rights to the game they also have the rights to the circuit.... make this and you have pong.   Of course they didn't do that because they had to cram a bunch of other games in there which is fine, but then don't make pong teh advertised game when the real pong isn't even on it.   

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2021, 05:17:32 pm »
Oh boy does this give me an idea for a (properly made!) machine

 >:D

Call me crazy but when a product is advertised as the arcade version of Pong, I expect the arcade version of Pong.   At least if I were a typical uneducated consumer.
It’s ok to half-ass it dude. They’ll sell out!!!!


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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2021, 11:49:10 am »
You've always got an answer, even if it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.  Of course clone versions of pong aren't like the original.... because they are clones.   Re-creating the original arcade version of pong is quite easy as the original schematics are available and even better someone took the crusty old 1974 schematics, cleaned them up and converted them into 16 easy to read circuits.

Here you go.... pong:

http://atarihq.com/danb/files/PongSchematic.pdf

As they have the rights to the game they also have the rights to the circuit.... make this and you have pong.   Of course they didn't do that because they had to cram a bunch of other games in there which is fine, but then don't make pong teh advertised game when the real pong isn't even on it.

well, i'm sure when you make your version, and ship it to them,
they'll buy it from you, and pay you tons of money for it.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #16 on: April 16, 2021, 04:25:57 pm »
review of pong pub table:



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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2021, 09:33:37 am »
I'd play it! I wouldn't own one for a variety of reasons, but a 4 player spinner cabinet would be great for the times I would actually use it.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2021, 05:47:01 pm »
another review:



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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2021, 10:22:45 pm »
I rally like it but sadly dont have the space for it.

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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2021, 06:26:39 pm »
I rally like it but sadly dont have the space for it.

glen has printed a scaled down miniature version, cost $300



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Re: Arcade 1up - 2021 - Pong Pub Table with 8 games
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2021, 12:32:13 am »
I rally like it but sadly dont have the space for it.

glen has printed a scaled down miniature version, cost $300

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Cost is off -- Figure he says 4 rolls of filament $100 - 4 spinners he says $100 but they are $50 - $60 each which would be $200 - $240 not $100 (though he may get them cheaper since they are his design) - Then there is still the RPI or Compute stick, the Screen, the buttons and encoder which would come close to another $150 - $200 - So you'd be pretty close to the $550 Best buy is charging for the A1U pong table
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