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6,654 pages: 1,289 machines, 702 software, 460 companies, 64 history, 17 articles, 59 fun. 4,336 media files so far; references to files not downloaded yet are left out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: Atari Football
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- american football
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- sport
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- '1978'
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specs:
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- label: year of release
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value: '1978'
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- label: companies
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value: Atari
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- label: type
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value: game
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- label: media
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value: arcade cabinet
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- label: systems
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value: Arcade
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- label: number of players
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value: 2 players (versus)
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- label: staff
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value: Mike Albaugh, Steve Bristow, Ed Logg, Lyle Rains, Dave Stubbens
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screenshots:
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- title: with overlays showing the different tactics available
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- title: Maintenance manual
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machines:
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- /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
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company: /companies/misc
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oc_id: 335
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127045632/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=335
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date: '2023-01-27'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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