Author Topic: Found: Atari Football (with pics) (Read 5129 times)

mmmPeanutButter · « **on:** July 03, 2007, 12:09:02 pm »

Found this on the street this morning a couple blocks from my house. I ran home and woke up my girlfriend: "hey, sweatie, honey, can you do me a favor?" Of course she says yes.

So we went down the street and loaded the game onto my longboard. The trip to my house wasn't bad, but the stairs were a little bit of a challenge.

I had to go, so I had zero time to really look at it.

really dirty, looks like it might clean up well
side panel missing, but I'll either go over and ask or just wait 'til garbage day
from what I've been reading, the game is pretty terrible
apparently the first trackball game ever made. Big trackballs too.
if nothing else, it's got two trackballs, a coin door, and two light-up atari volcano buttons

Anyways, here's the pics. I guess I'll see if it works and clean it up. then I need to decide what the heck I'm going to do with it. Probably mame with trackball games??

Thoughts?

Sinner · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2007, 01:01:54 pm »

Nice score...

ChadTower · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2007, 01:03:36 pm »

She didn't kill you when you called her Sweatie?

Nice find, man, I love those old b/w atari games. Just don't let the trackball eat your hand.

DON'T MAME THAT THING.

cw · « **Reply #3 on:** July 03, 2007, 03:51:47 pm »

great find...

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 03, 2007, 05:31:27 pm »

Next time, just give me a call ... I have lots of room in the van and my stairs are easily navigable.

Nice find ... if you want to avoid MAMEing it, let me know what you want for it -- that's a project I can justify the space for (IIRC, you and I are in the same city).

Cheers.

RayB · « **Reply #5 on:** July 03, 2007, 09:42:30 pm »

Nice!

WareWolF · « **Reply #6 on:** July 03, 2007, 09:55:46 pm »

Atari Football is alot of fun to play, it is far from terrible. It just has very primitive graphics...

SavannahLion · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2007, 12:20:13 pm »

Meanwhile, there's a Florida Craigslisting that looks something like the one in California.

Rocky · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2007, 12:44:35 pm »

Nice score. Atari Football is a lot of fun. It's B&W and the football players are X & O

, but it's a fun game.

I hope you can get it running!

Level42 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2007, 01:53:01 pm »

Quote from: mmmPeanutButter on July 03, 2007, 12:09:02 pm

from what I've been reading, the game is pretty terrible

Off course the game is terrible, it's AMERICAN football

Nice catch !! Please do not mame if possible. Is the PCB still in there ?

amadama · « **Reply #10 on:** July 04, 2007, 03:21:28 pm »

Wow, great find!
It's hard to see in the pics but it looks like it may be complete. Possibly it can cleanup real well too.
Do not Mame this please!! Unless everything is totally trashed or missing of course. Those B/W monitors are hard to find original too.
Good luck with this restoration!
Alex

Luigi · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2007, 09:19:48 am »

I guess I would immediately drop dead if I would find something like that "on the street ..... a couple blocks from my house"

Very nice, please consider to bring it back to it's original state before mame-ing it !!

ChadTower · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2007, 09:21:23 am »

I found a really nice 95% working Rockola juke on the road not far from my house once.

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2007, 11:45:15 am »

Well, I don't think it'll be MAME'd. I got it in the house a couple days ago. I had to bring it around back, lift it 5' in the air over a railing and onto a patio and then had to remove the door to get it in... but it's in there.

It seemed to clean up pretty good. Looks complete, except for the side door. I'm not too worried, since I'll likely be replacing the black vinyl anyways.

I need to give it a once-over to check fuses and the like. There was a switch mounted inside the CP on the left that looks like it's accessible through a hole on the underside. Anybody know what this is? Power? In mine, the hole was covered over with a piece of metal.

If anybody here has a scan of the service manual, I'd love to see it.

I went away and haven't had much time to look at it. But when I get back, I'll keep working on it and post pics. I definitely need new rollers and bearings for the trackball.

(The pic the machine in my kitchen (where it will stay)(ie. I live alone). The boxes piled up on the side are to prevent my girlfriend's cat from snooping around inside.)

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2007, 02:35:20 pm »

...before I dive right into getting this thing working...

Provided I clean it all up, rebuild the trackballs, touch up painting... what would this be worth? (in general)

[edit: added emoticon]

RayB · « **Reply #15 on:** July 05, 2007, 03:01:04 pm »

Unfortunately, not a whole lot unless there's a collector out there who really wants it. That's the sad thing about older "non popular" games. So, working, anywhere from $0 to $200?

You should join www.cgcc.ca

leapinlew · « **Reply #16 on:** July 05, 2007, 03:02:51 pm »

I would guess it's worth about $1,350-$1,400 if it comes with a 1969 NY Jets Autographed Helmet.

http://www.sportsmemorabilia.com/sports-products/1969-ny-jets-team-signed-helmet.html

shardian · « **Reply #17 on:** July 05, 2007, 03:12:34 pm »

If he's good with forgery and photoshop, that cabinet could be signed by the entire Pittsburg Steelers team from back then.

vintagegamer · « **Reply #18 on:** July 05, 2007, 04:24:34 pm »

Only things that show up in the local trash here are busted lawn mowers and peed on sofas..

VINTAGEGAMER

divemaster127 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 05, 2007, 05:49:18 pm »

I use to love that game back in the day, I remember the wood trackballs were killer on my hands, spinning those as fast as I could heading for the goal line.
dm

DrewKaree · « **Reply #20 on:** July 05, 2007, 10:31:37 pm »

Quote from: divemaster127 on July 05, 2007, 05:49:18 pm

I use to love that game back in the day, I remember the wood trackballs were killer on my hands, spinning those as fast as I could heading for the goal line.
dm

A good game often left one or more players with a blood blister or outright bleeding

I friggen LOVED that game!

That seems to be in fairly nice condition. I'd hate to see it MAME'd, but what I WOULD like to see is a detailed measuring of the thing to match it up to what we have out there.

FWIW, I saw a pretty neat setup with one of those. Someone had redone the CP's on both ends and made each CP a single trackball panel. They then turned it into a Golden Tee head-to-head...haven't got a clue how they got the monitor to flip for player 2 action, but still....plenty of room for a swing. Hopefully sometime before I die (but before I'm in my 80's and too feeble to get any distance on drives), I'd like to scratch build that cab for a Golden Tee.

Nice score!

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2007, 11:36:20 pm »

Quote from: DrewKaree on July 05, 2007, 10:31:37 pm

I'd hate to see it MAME'd, but what I WOULD like to see is a detailed measuring of the thing to match it up to what we have out there.

Where are the existing measurements? I'd be happy to print them up and compare/update them.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #22 on:** July 06, 2007, 12:33:32 am »

http://www.jakobud.com/

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #23 on:** July 06, 2007, 08:37:53 am »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on July 06, 2007, 12:33:32 am

http://www.jakobud.com/

The Compressed (zipped) Folder is Corrupted or Invalid.

Update: Ha. So I went onto Jakobud's site and sent in a comment and asked him what the problem was and I hit send and it generated an "Error.... Try again later..." message.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2007, 08:50:27 am »

It's a problem on your end then ...because I just pulled both the .jpg and the .eps versions and they work fine.

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #25 on:** July 06, 2007, 09:28:45 am »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on July 06, 2007, 08:50:27 am

It's a problem on your end then ...because I just pulled both the .jpg and the .eps versions and they work fine.

Must have been a firefox thing (??). Cause I got it working in ie. So I'll print them today and check them up this weekend.

leapinlew · « **Reply #26 on:** July 06, 2007, 11:16:26 am »

Quote from: DrewKaree on July 05, 2007, 10:31:37 pm

Quote from: divemaster127 on July 05, 2007, 05:49:18 pm
I use to love that game back in the day, I remember the wood trackballs were killer on my hands, spinning those as fast as I could heading for the goal line.
dm

A good game often left one or more players with a blood blister or outright bleeding I friggen LOVED that game!

That seems to be in fairly nice condition. I'd hate to see it MAME'd, but what I WOULD like to see is a detailed measuring of the thing to match it up to what we have out there.

FWIW, I saw a pretty neat setup with one of those. Someone had redone the CP's on both ends and made each CP a single trackball panel. They then turned it into a Golden Tee head-to-head...haven't got a clue how they got the monitor to flip for player 2 action, but still....plenty of room for a swing. Hopefully sometime before I die (but before I'm in my 80's and too feeble to get any distance on drives), I'd like to scratch build that cab for a Golden Tee.

Nice score!

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=63045.0

DrewKaree · « **Reply #27 on:** July 06, 2007, 06:36:02 pm »

Lew, I actually saw one "in the wild". It sold at the SuperAuctions near me. They bought it from the auction prior to that one (it was a non-working Football - no boards, bezel or monitor), cleaned it up, painted it (the enamel hadn't hardened enough and was chipping if you even sneezed near the thing), slapped artwork on it (believe it was inkjetted from the looks of it), and threw a bad cardboard bezel on it. It sold for $1100

Looks like I'm not the only one who's had the idea!

ClubNinja · « **Reply #28 on:** July 09, 2007, 09:37:05 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on July 05, 2007, 09:21:23 am

I found a really nice 95% working Rockola juke on the road not far from my house once.

Heh, yeah. That was a very nice one. Wonder what ever happened to it.

Texasmame · « **Reply #29 on:** July 15, 2007, 09:41:27 pm »

Quote from: WareWolF on July 03, 2007, 09:55:46 pm

Atari Football is alot of fun to play, it is far from terrible. It just has very primitive graphics...

Seconded. A fun, two player game. If I were in your shoes, I'd try and get it running again. Nice find.


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