Haha... Key piece of info missing in the comments - after connecting it to the TV, you still need to set the TV to channel 3! Of course, you would also need an analog to digital converter for an HD TV - since those usually have .1, .2 etc. channel extensions, In not sure it would work, but I''d him it up, turn it on, and scan for signal. $cross fingers$
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Tim Nevo
Sunday 31st December 2017
Search Amazon for a RCA to F-Type adapter. You can get either male or female. Also get a good coax cable if you don''t have one.
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Margaret St. John (United States)
Sunday 31st December 2017
My Dad gave me our c-380 can anyone tell me the exact name of the adapter I need to plug it into my tv’s coax port?
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Bob
Wednesday 12th September 2012
Thank you Bryan and John for your responses. I got the part. It converted the wire from the atari and to coaxial. It was a box. It was similar to a nintendo rf adapter except it has a switch. It still didnt work so I would have to troubleshoot it. Are there any common problem on the one with the plastic (not wood) shell to look out for?
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John (US)
Friday 13rd July 2012
Yes Brian is right. Very counter intuitive. It is putting out an antenna signal on an RCA jack. Need RCA to "cable" adapter. No change in inductance or whatever. I believe I got one at Radio Shack.
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Bryan (US)
Sunday 1st July 2012
1. No, you can not use a yellow composite video to play this system. You must get an adapter that goes from your Atari (what looks like an RCA but is not) to your coax hook up on your TV. You coax is just your standard cable hook up. This is because both audio and video come through that come so it wont work hooked up to your RCA inputs.\
2. $40-$70
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Bob
Thursday 15th December 2011
does anyone know if you can use a yellow composite video on this system or what else do you use for video? I am trying to fix one as a school project.
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Vincent Wiseman (nashville/usa)
Sunday 28th November 2010
I have a beige atari video pinball game model c-380 does anyone have an esitimated value for it. And it is working
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jesse (north carolina)
Wednesday 6th October 2010
i got a video pinball game system that works and is like great condition
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Adam (dexter ny)
Tuesday 21st September 2010
Not sure why the power plug ins never survived but I also have no plug..hmmm
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Adam V. (Westford, MA)
Friday 12th March 2010
I recently picked up an Atari Video Pinball (beige version), and it''s an interesting piece of history$ basically, a bridge between the dedicated Pong-type consoles which had come before, and the cartridge-based systems which were soon to come. An added note: the Video Pinball console actually predates not just the Atari 2600 cartridge of the same name, but also the arcade game, which followed in 1978. Of course, the arcade version is far better graphically, but the console version is still fun.
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Ellexis (Corpus Christi, TX)
Thursday 20th March 2008
Hi! I purchased an Atari Video Pinball Model C-380 off of eBay to add to my Atari collection and need a power adapter for it. It still works great, even with the six C cell batteries!
In 1977, a new type of ball and paddle system was launched: Video Pinball. This game also existed in the arcade under the same name, hence the home versions sold by Atari (Video Pinball, model C-380) and Sears (Pinball Breakaway, model 99713). There even was a japanese version, the Epoch TV Block.
These systems were designed around a more advanced chip than the PONG-in-a-chip devices, possibly a microcontroller (believed, since the system also contains a small RAM chip which role is unknown, but believed to be for the display and/or score storage). The microcontroller is referred as C011500-1, although the system uses another Atari chip referenced C011512-05.
The games played are based around the pinball and breakout principles. Bumper controllers on the sides or a dial on the front were used to control the games. Depending on the game selected, the ball bounces on two bumpers (pinball games), or on a pad that moves horizontally (pinpaddle games), or just like in breakout. Obviously, each game had its own principles. In reality, the system played three different games.
The first one had four variants and was a pinball game. Some graphics and the type of bounce changed. Depending on the variant, you controled the ball with your flippers (via side buttons) or by moving a paddle with the knob. In the flipper versions, the ball had nice parabolic movement affected by the gravity whereas in the paddle versions, there was no gravity.
The second game was a basketball game. The ball bounced on a pad moved horizontally, and the goal was to let the ball go in a multicolor basket.
The third type of game was breakout. There was another variant called Breakway/Breakthru, the only difference between the two versions being a hole in the wall in place of the green bricks. Top red bricks could only be destroyed if the ball was coming directly from the paddle. This second version was only found on early models (read below).
Like said above, Atari and Sears marketed their own version (both designed by Atari), and Atari even released a latter cheaper model with a slightly different beige case.
The second basketball game (Basketball II/ Rebound II) was only found on the latter version of the Atari Video Pinball (beige model) and on the Epoch TV-Block. Early versions of the Atari Video Pinball and the Sears Pinball Breakaway had the second version of the Breakout game instead, called Breakway or Breakthru.
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