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Atari Football

american football

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year of release	1978

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companies	Atari

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media	arcade cabinet

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systems	Arcade

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number of players	2 players (versus)

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staff	Mike Albaugh, Steve Bristow, Ed Logg, Lyle Rains, Dave Stubbens

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230127045632/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=335	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, 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!

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