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The true atari pong barrel is really hard to find
clearly that one's a bootleg.. worthless really.
That seller's description in his ad is pretty offensive...
Computer Space is the first arcade game, not Pong, am I correct? And I agree it looks like a custom bootleg, interesting but not worth $800 in my opinion.
quite clearly a conversion, nowhere near original. I would go out, buy a pong cocktail clone for under 50$ and throw it in a barrel and voila.. Although it is unique, it is not 800$ unique. IMO
Computer Space is the first arcade game, not Pong, am I correct? And I agree it looks like a custom bootleg, interesting but not worth $800 in my opinion.
$800... now he wants $1200 as a minimum offer and has moved to eBay with a brand new user id:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1972-Atari-Tele-Tennis-Vintage-Pong-Arcade-Game_W0QQitemZ280456277969
A new instant classic, Donkey Kong in a barrel!
You heard it here first. No stealing my idea!
The eBay seller responded to my questions with these links.
So does anyone recognize this board?
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Here is another by the same company - no barrel
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=65924.0
Almost the same top, too.
Looking at the construction of the barrel (is it me, or are those switches not lined up?), I'd say it's an operator's hack job. He had a unit in a cocktail, saw an Atari 'pong in a barrel' and then transplanted his cocktail into a barrel.
Possibly noteworthy (I mean, it's kind of neat), but certainly not collectible in the $800 sense.