pong clones or help me ID these suckers

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Possibly two of the biggest boards I've ever seen. Guessing pong clone or something similar, but anyone recognize these?
 

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Are you sure those are even arcade boards? I have owned several very early Pong clones (released just months after the original) and none of them had boards anywhere near that big.
 
Those aren't pongs for sure. If you're willing to send them to me, I can probably test & ID them for you.
 
I'm not 100% sure they're arcade boards, but they came from an operator that had lots of older and oddball stuff. Not really worth sending these out to ID them, but thanks.
 
Got the boards yesterday. They're in pretty bad shape and will require significant effort to bring them to life. One is an Exidy Death Race. The other remains unknown, but is likely another Exidy or Chicago coin board. Maybe Alley Rally or Destruction Derby.
 
That first board looks pretty similar to my Chicago Coins Demolition Derby the only difference I see is that I don't have connector pads on the parts side of the board only the solder side.

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I've never seen a Demolition Derby, but that's my guess also. My understanding is that the Exidy Destruction Derby and DR boards should be very similar, but there's no "Exidy" mark on the first board....so it's got to be Demolition Derby from Chicago coin.

Do you have any screenshots of that one? It will be a while before I can get it ready to power up, but I'd like to compare...
 
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