Atari Football (Atari 1978)

[SunMate18]

1:48 Even the crowd 'yells' are in 3D! :D

and after you scored,

an 8 beeps memory read/write failure follows, how disappointing...

[MrR818]

this is on xbox or ps3 :)))))

[Bigfriendly15]

Oh yes.....these track balls pinched the palm of my hand and drew a little bit of blood! I had to make sure that I stretched my hand out all of the way. I you left it cupped you were going to get it pinched. Great game but OUCH those trackballs could hurt!

[watcbd]

That looks like it would be fun to play TODAY let alone 1978.

[MrSsandwichman69]

looks like an extremely fun time.

[capricious71]

Looks a bit hi-res and smooth scrolling for 1978...

[supahdupahguy81]

Finally, someone managed to capture PERFECTLY what 90% of the world sees whenever we look at American football...

The bland, abstract GFX......it's sooo...."what the fuck".....which is exactly the same feeling i get when i'm watching a real gridiron match...

Well done Atari.......PMSL

[gillies9]

I used to wear baseball batting gloves while playing this to avoid the pinching & skin burning.

[watcbd]

@gillies9 Haha thats dedication.

[highschoolveggie]

If I remember correctly, the trackball pinched the heck out of your hand.

[riverbandit58]

I have one of the few remaining operational versions of this in my loft. Had for 8 years and still works perfectly!

[guyinfl99]

Wow - great memories and fun . The trackball was actually physically challenging as otheres have said, and it was quite a scene to watch people's frantic movements and gyrations as they spun that trackball as hard as they could so their "X" outran the other guy's "O". Also, a quarter would only buy you like 5 minutes of game time, and when that was over you had 30 seconds to put in more quarters to continue the game, so if you were 4th and goal on the 1, you had to pump more quarters to finish.

[thenintendogamer]

What was the first color arcade then?

[blockhead33]

only difference between this and madden 11 is the 3d graphics and sound

[jtxhorns]

7 on 7 x's and o's. cant get more basic then this lol

[salrap10]

i wnna try this game lol

[JSSTyger]

1:45 homing footballs...gotta love 'em.

[JSSTyger]

I won the SuperBowl playing this game. The trophy was a small white dot.

[RantovRizzia]

Oh, man, did I waste a lot of quarters on this back in the 80's!!

[pwned79]

wow those games must of sucked then now of days huh just like mw2 so realistic im gonna look for the first war game.

[oakR8ter14]

that hit at 0:39 was crazy

[mquiroz90]

a late 70s game

[kinstube]

WOW!

[Krankdatking]

lol X's and O's. ii just played my madden 99 and thought it wz Og lolz

[endlessmountain]

did you not have to play 60minute games only with usual high scoring games?

[KEN305DADE]

atari had a football game???? lol wow

[stubs96]

after looking at this, how can people complain about the Wii's graphics?

[SonnyBoyPics]

Loved this game!

[chubnostics]

This demo does the game no justice what-so-ever........this is one of the funnest head to head games ever created. It still holds up really well actually,

I was so tired after playing this game, not just from the frantic scrolling on the trackball, but from cracking up so much playing it. People make the funniest sounds, grunts and yells playing it. It's physically challenging like few other game for sure. Your likely to be bruised, battered and worn out from a few games of this.....

[DraikonZ3]

man the graphics are better than ps3 and 360 lol

[oldhatrs25]

Madden '78.

[rocksoliddude1]

imagine being bed-ridden and only able to play this game 24 hours a day; you would go insane within 30 minutes.

[diamondssjordan]

@rocksoliddude1 lol. funny and well said

[bargaincrusader]

There was a 4 person version also, excellent game. I want one email me bargaincrusader@gmail

[aquamakwesha]

howcan u even tell who has the ball the oldest game ive played was 2002

[ccie12933]

Yeah, I remember those track balls - a friend of mine and I once put enough quarters in the machine to play a full 60-minute game, and the next day I had a blood blister that you wouldn't believe.

[airsoftcrazy1313]

WHAT GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zakaroonie]

Those skin pinches used to hurt like a mo-fo!

[ambj219]

It got way better, atari, in about 5 years, still hilarious at its best. loved it.

[djhives]

OH...HELL NO....

[nebraskame]

if you think of when this came out (late 70s), this game is actually pretty complex for that time. the thing is 30 years old!

[frankwilliams987]

wow the guy on the right really sucks at this game

[bobbelote]

yeah, no kidding!

[Umma6umma]

I had a real problem getting the game to work well with a mouse, I never really got it to emulate the trakball correctly, hence the piss poor performance. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

[jteleha]

The game is in Demo mode.

[pavo6503]

I remember this, it was in the arcade in the mall when I was a kid, in the late 70's. Each player had a track ball to control his QB.

[nebraskame]

yep, i remember it too. as i recall, it was a huge track ball and it pinched your fingers if you weren't careful!

[EazyEazt]

WOW, that looks like a playbook!

[leslielove]

fucking kollllllllllllllllllllllllllll­llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll­lllllllllllllllll :)

[littlemissy100]

wow.THAT'S a sports game?? lol sweeettttt!!!

[Umma6umma]

It was a huge hit for Atari, it outsold Space Invaders during Football season!

[juventini1916]

coooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!­!!!!