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I have an interesing one. It was a parts board, so some chips are missing. The copper layer explains what everything is, so there's hope. I don't know what it is, so if there's a chance that if I never find out, I'll just put it in a cabinet and call it "fuckball" or something.

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A dedicated Fuckball?!? Damn! I haven't seen that since I was a kid! 🤣
 
It doesn't appear to have a processor, which would make it part of a board stack. No idea what it is.
 
It's a Pong thing for sure, Here's what I know-

All chip dates are from 08-19th week of 1975. Seems to have ran a standalone power supply.
It's a game involving either 2 or 4 players seeing as there are flags for 1-2 SCORE and 3-4 SCORE (a cocktail game probably) and what's interesting is a /HOUSE flag, so likely a single player option too.

some other flags;
ATTRACT
/FREE GAME
X DISP
BG
FIELD DISP
PAD IN
B LINE
N LINE

Edit; better pictures. I tried looking up NTI, but I didn't get anything. Perhaps NTI is just the board fabricator. This may be a U.S. Billiards Survival, but I'm still in the dark.
 

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The "free game" had me thinking Mirco Challenge but nope. Interesting it doesn't have the switch to choose 11 or 15 points. Love the descriptions right on the board. Wicked cool
 
I would say definitely a pong style 2/4 player game with things like "serve", "ball" and "miss" labelled on there. Rules out other discrete games at the time like driving games.
Did a quick search and turned up nothing useful, then had to stop as I am away and not on good internet.
 
I scoured the Pong clone thread and links therein and didn't see any matches.
 
Sounds like it is just a QuadraFuckball... :p
QUADRAFUCKBALL IT IS
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So, I'm thinking this is a U.S. Billiards "Survival" board.
Too bad that U.S. Billiards T.V. Tennis sold on Marketplace. Even though this board is only seen in the cocktail form, I feel that cabinet would have been fun to draw up and repro for this board. Would still look nice in an upright. If anyone knows where that went or had contact with the guy, I'm legit interested now.
 
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Sounds like it is just a QuadraFuckball... :p
It brings to mind a version of pong someone made for the PC called "Pongsturbation", which was a single player game where your paddle rotated around on the screen Tempest-like and you had to keep the ball on the screen yourself. :giggle:
Kind of an interesting premise, I'm surprised nobody had thought of it BITD.
 
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