Samuel-IGN
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I pursued a Craigslist post this week and tracked down an amazing Pong machine with a great story -- and picked up up yesterday evening, Atari's 40th anniversary. The owner went to Atari's warehouse in 1972/3 and bought this machine to reverse engineer and create a clone. The clone is unlisted on KLOV, but he said they sold 6 machines. More on that later...
The machine was kept in working order by the owner in his home, though did a short stint at a minigolf course later (where it made no money).
It's it nearly perfect cosmetic shape, with slight edge wear being the only issue. It was working in videos he sent me recently, but now it is displaying a bright line (it still plays). I haven't got to the bottom of the problem yet, but would be interested in advice form Pong owners. It's a pretty simple setup though: game board, TV, bread pan...
The icing on the already awesome cake is that the fellow's partner has a working version of the pong clone he wants to get rid of, too. For free. So more on that soon I hope!
I plan on researching this story a bit more, maybe for an article. Check out the pics though, it's a peach.
Atari Pong, Serial no. KKK 018.
The machine was kept in working order by the owner in his home, though did a short stint at a minigolf course later (where it made no money).
It's it nearly perfect cosmetic shape, with slight edge wear being the only issue. It was working in videos he sent me recently, but now it is displaying a bright line (it still plays). I haven't got to the bottom of the problem yet, but would be interested in advice form Pong owners. It's a pretty simple setup though: game board, TV, bread pan...
The icing on the already awesome cake is that the fellow's partner has a working version of the pong clone he wants to get rid of, too. For free. So more on that soon I hope!
I plan on researching this story a bit more, maybe for an article. Check out the pics though, it's a peach.
Atari Pong, Serial no. KKK 018.
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