Atari Video Pinball on The Buddy System

[K3V]

Hey guys, thought you'd like this. I teamed up with local YouTuber T_O for a series of old school video game pinball videos. The first one was released today, and we play the best in pinball simulation from 1978:

 

https://youtu.be/k9eIuK2XEg4

[BassGuitari]

A little bit late here, but cool video! I'd point out that with the Basketball game, you have to "dribble" the ball a few times before you shoot it, otherwise you won't get enough height on the ball to get it into the hoop. It's pretty tricky but fun when you get the hang of it.

[byonddrivn]

I was just looking at my dedicated consoles yesterday and decided to browse this forum. I have the Sears version but I used to love playing this, along with my Coleco Telstar and Super Pong IV. I need to play this more again soon. Great vid.

[chas10e]

I'm glad they played through on the pinball game after they knocked all the drop targets down ....

 

they didn't score at all in the basketball games & got frustrated with it .... I would think if they weren't shooting video they would have played through

 

Breakout a great game too .... I haven't cleared a 2'nd screen yet but did get there ...

[HeadcolorsTV]

Hey guys,

 

Thanks for the feedback! Pleasure to make everyone's acquaintance (been meaning to set up an account here for some time now).

 

AtariAge members might enjoy my show SimplerTimes--especially once I start producing more episodes for it. There'll be plenty of mentions and nods to early-day Atari.

Edited April 30, 2016 by HeadcolorsTV

[+Stephen]

Welcome.

[Keatah]

Are there any emulators for this console?

[+Stephen]

None that I am aware of. Not even sure what the "guts" of this are. Listings show two custom Atari chips in there, most likely an ASIC version of discrete custom logic like the original home Pong was.

[Keatah]

Yeh. Custom pong circuitry so to speak. These things are impossible to emulate I'm afraid.

[ubersaurus]

To be fair, there is an emulator specializing in these early games that don't use ROM files by emulating the circuits, but right now they only cover a handful of games, all of which are arcade releases. The system requirements are also relatively robust.

 

http://adamulation.blogspot.com/

[Batchman]

Just so you have your curiosity satisfied, when you launch a new ball, the eighth time it hits the paddle it will launch at a very shallow angle ... unless you manage to hit one of the red bricks, first. Think they also had that same timing on the Breakout cartridge for the 2600, though I'm not sure.

 

I used to really enjoy the three hoop basketball game, but never liked the one hoop.

 

I'd like to play one of these again, some day.