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+title: Atari Football
+tags:
+- american football
+- sport
+years:
+- '1978'
+params:
+  specs:
+  - label: year of release
+    value: '1978'
+  - label: companies
+    value: Atari
+  - label: type
+    value: game
+  - label: media
+    value: arcade cabinet
+  - label: systems
+    value: Arcade
+  - label: number of players
+    value: 2 players (versus)
+  - label: staff
+    value: Mike Albaugh, Steve Bristow, Ed Logg, Lyle Rains, Dave Stubbens
+  screenshots:
+  - title: with overlays showing the different tactics available
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
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+    text: ''
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+  - title: ''
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+  - title: Maintenance manual
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
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+  - title: ''
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+  machines:
+  - /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
+  company: /companies/misc
+  oc_id: 335
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127045632/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=335
+    date: '2023-01-27'
+---
+
+Atari football is considered the first real sport simulation video game, with its 7 seven players on each team, detailed playfield graphics, 4 offensive tactics and 4 defensive tactics.
+
+Before that, sports games meant pong-type video games such as tennis, hockey or football. But let's face it, there were mainly pong spin-offs, not real efforts to simulate sport rules.
+
+Of course there was also **Football** for the [Magnavox Odyssey](/museum/magnavox-odyssey/), released in 1972; but if the effort was laudable, the system technical limitations prevented the game from being a real simulation.
+
+Apart from that, Atari Football is also the first video game to use a trackball as the controller. A 4 players version was even released in 1979, with 4 trackballs!