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228 files were never archived; see docs/not-recovered.md in the extraction repo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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57 lines
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title: Quadrapong
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tags:
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- ball and paddle
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years:
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- '1974'
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params:
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image: /media/museum/software/atari_quadrapong_ss1.png
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specs:
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- label: year of release
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value: '1974'
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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: 1 - 4 players (versus)
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screenshots:
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- title: 4-player game
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/atari_quadrapong_ss1.png
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- title: 2 players are out
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/atari_quadrapong_ss2.png
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- title: arcade cabinet
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/atari_quadrapong_cab_1.jpg
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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: 423
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230324070840/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=423
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date: '2023-03-24'
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---
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Quadrapong is a 4-player variation of the famous hit [Pong](/software/pong/).
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A ball is bouncing from to side off the four walls of the screen trying to penetrate each player's goal. A beeping sound simulates its rebounds. Each player tries to keep the ball out of his goal with his paddle. If the ball penetrates his goal, he loses of one his 4 initial points with which he begins the game. When all are gone, his goal closes. Players are eliminated until only the victor is left.
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Although Atari was at the origin of Pong (largely inspired by Magnavox Odyssey's Tennis game though), by 1975 only 10% of all pong games were made by Atari. The competition was fierce. Atari had to innovate and started creating variations of its Pong hit: Pong Doubles, Quadrapong, Super Pong, etc...
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Quadrapong was in fact initially conceived by Kee Games in 1973, under he name [Elimination!](/software/elimination/), but as Kee Games was a kind of subsidiary of Atari, the game was quickly adapted and sold as Quadrapong.
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Elimination and its Quadrapong counterpart were the first cocktail cabinet arcade video games.
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Pong and most of its variants, including Quadrapong, were succesfully ported to the [Atari VCS 2600](/museum/atari-vcs-2600/) system, within the "[Video Olympics](/software/video-olympics/)" cartridge.
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In 1980, the gameplay format was expanded into the Atari arcade game **Warlords**, which was also ported to Atari's home consoles and computers.
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