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Past Times Pinball History Ep 20: The Atarians

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The first of seven games to reach full production by Atari, The Atarians is the first solid-state (digital) widebody pinball machine. It also features a very unique and innovative playfield sensor layour that tracks the ball on the playfield. #atari #pinball #PinballHistory #ArcadeGames #RetroGaming #atarigames
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[Music]
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for this week's episode of pastimes
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pinball history we're going to feature
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1976 Atari the
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atarian this is historically significant
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because this is the very first solid
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state widebody it is one of seven full
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production games that Atari released
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this being the first one the last one
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being 1979 Atari Superman which we have
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right next to it a really unique feature
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about this game if you look at the
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Playfield you may notice there are no
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rollover switches which are common in
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the out lanes or the in Lanes or in the
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middle of the Playfield instead we have
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these stars on here those are inductive
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Playfield sensors also magnetic sensors
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so if we hit start
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here what we can see is it can actually
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track the ball without actually hitting
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a sensor so for
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instance when it rolls over these Stars
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so score points here's example you can
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see if we roll over this it's going to
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open the left gate so if you watch right
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here we'll hit that it'll roll over it
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if we hit this star right here it'll
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close the gate this is something that
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only existed on this game Atari went to
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a more traditional way if you come on
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down
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here Airborne Avenger right here for
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instance their rollovers are made out of
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plastic next to it here we have space
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Riders and they went back to a more
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traditional wire for the rollover gun so
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like I said there were seven games that
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hit full production all of them being
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wide bodies so we have six of them here
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if you pan over to the right we also
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have Hercules also a full production
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game so Atari only produced pinballs for
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three years 1976 their last one being
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Superman 1979 one of the most historic
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as you can see right here is Airborne
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Avenger the very first game that was
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designed by Steve
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Richie Steve designed this game also
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designed Superman left before the full
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