First ever cocktail?

[Franco]

Im writing up my cab build as part of a college planning project and Im just trying to get some background info.

I think the first upright was Pong in 1971 (correct me if im wrong) but does anyone know what the first cocktail was?

Thanks.

[Lilwolf]

this looks like a job for klov!  www.klov.com

[Lilwolf]

or google!

Othello seems to be the first...

http://www.cs.colby.edu/~rjones/courses/cs398/history.html

1978
First known ``Easter Egg'' put into an Atari video game.
Bushnell leaves Atari, agrees not to compete with them for five years, and buys Chuck E. Cheese chain.
Nintendo releases cocktail tables that play Computer Othello.
Atari releases Atari Football using trackball controller; huge hit.
Midway releases Space Invaders; huge hit, causes coin shortages in Japan.
Intel develops the 8088 8/16-bit processor.

[Franco]

Thanks Lilwolf, your googling power is superior to mine!

[Flinkly]

well, pong still came out in a table like fom before that, right?

i mean, first it came out in that tabletop box thing, and then they started making...oh wait.  it wasn't pong, but a variant by nutting associates.  they made those round topped tables for playing pong on.  i'd call that the first cocktail.

[RayB]

Define "upright"? There were upright coin-operated game machines shaped just like video arcade machines, long before Pong.

And if you want to strictly count games with a TV screen, then Computer Space would be the first upright.

As for cocktails, there were cocktail Pinball machines even before that.

[Flinkly]

we all KNOW that computer space was the first arcade game, but for cocktails, its a little more gray.

[RayB]

we all KNOW that computer space was the first arcade game, but for cocktails, its a little more black and white.

[Flinkly]

oops, sorry.

[Franco]

Thanks for the input guys.

Yeah it was arcade monitor games I was after.

Right now ive got that sorted, back to the write up! (9000 words and still going strong, eeek!) 

[paigeoliver]

1972 actually.

Pong Doubles.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9075

[DEMENTED]

This site http://www.system16.com/atari/hrdw_discrete.html

[paigeoliver]

Pong Doubles sold today at the St. Louis auction (nonworking) for $10, and I was the $5 bidder. =)

[Lilwolf]

Man, I would have jumped all over that for 15 bucks

Actually a pretty cool little cab.

[paigeoliver]

Man, I would have jumped all over that for 15 bucks

Actually a pretty cool little cab.
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The top of the thing was darn near destroyed and it didn't work, and working pseudo-working games in better shape were going for $25-$50 so there was little interest.