Three Video Pinballs compared C-380

[Rob Mitchell]

Back in the day and for many years all I had was the plain vanilla Atari C-380 video pinball.  Only recently did I get the brown Sears and now the brown Atari C-380.  The other day I realized that the two brown ones have a different game called Breakaway or Breakthru!  This game has a gap in the Breakout wall!  Absent from this game lineup is the one basket version of basketball.

 

I think I prefer these for this different Breakout version.   (I never liked either of the basketball games.)

Edited October 28, 2022 by Rob Mitchell
update

[BassGuitari]

A fun piece of trivia: the woodgrain version of the console (with two Breakout games) was initially a Sears exclusive alongside the white Atari version (with two Rebound games). Atari released it under their own branding in 1978, and it was Atari's final dedicated console. 🙂

[Rob Mitchell]

15 hours ago, BassGuitari said:

A fun piece of trivia: the woodgrain version of the console (with two Breakout games) was initially a Sears exclusive alongside the white Atari version (with two Rebound games). Atari released it under their own branding in 1978, and it was Atari's final dedicated console. 🙂

Thanks .. the different game lineups just became apparent to me.

 

The IC with the code C11500-03 has this Breakthrough game as the unique game:

 

 

 

 

The IC with code C010755-03 has this single Rebound game as the unique game:

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by Rob Mitchell

[+Stephen]

Does anyone know of the custom ICs in these games have been decapped?

[Keatah]

I hadn't seen any decappings, yet.

 

There's more noise surrounding C-380 and other pong consoles nowadays than there was just 3 or 4 years ago. IMHO it's just a matter of time.

 

I suppose news would show up here or on Riddle's page.

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=394958&page=1&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&vc=1

Or in M.A.M.E.'s monthly release notes. There might even be an explosion of "status updates" if this ever gets emulated! Watch for it!

 

Edited January 3, 2023 by Keatah

[CaptainBreakout]

The other day I was looking at a thread here that went into detail about how to mod these c-380's for A/V out.  I can't seem to find the thread about it now.

 

Anyone know the link to that thread?