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when being able to recognize unknown pong cabs
01/20/16 12:51 AM


...and can eventually find the name, has to be a hardcore pong fan.


Notices unknown four player pong cab listed for sale and then vaguely recalls seeing flyer recently because the control panel is plain and simple looking.

It is See-Fun's Olympic Tennis that is listed for sale.

The seller is only correct if stating that a working See-Fun Olympic Tennis cab might be rare, but upright two-four pong player cabs shouldn't be rare.....at this time....maybe hard-to-find, but not rare. In another 20 years or so, then the seller's claim can be correct.


The cab is missing the bezel piece and when seeing an image of the game on tv screen, it appears that maybe a replacement pcb that is not an actual Olympic Tennis pcb is inside the cab.

I look at the flyer and illustration shows only the net line without any top and bottom border lines compared to the auction photo that does show top and bottom border lines. My guess is maybe the flyer illustration was printed before the actual game was released and Olympic Tennis does have top and bottom border lines or a different pcb was placed in auctioned cab because actual Olympic Tennis pcb no longer works.

As I know at this time, Pong Doubles is only 2 or 4 player pong that was released early that it did not have top and bottom boundaries while the clones such as Tennis Tourney or Winner IV did inlcude top and bottom boundary feature.


There is an ebay listing of a supposed See-Fun Olympic Tennis pcb at this time.

It would be interesting to find out if See-Fun's version also supports top and bottom boundary feature like the other Atari competitors have.







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* when being able to recognize unknown pong cabs gregf 01/20/16 12:51 AM
. * Re: when being able to recognize unknown pong cabs jeremymtc  01/20/16 01:54 AM
. * Re: when being able to recognize unknown pong cabs gregf  01/20/16 11:15 PM

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