🏢 Atari, Inc.📅 01 Jan 1978🎮 Atari Cocktail Classics / Bob Whitehead / Alan Miller
Designed specifically for upscale social cocktail lounges, restaurants, and family bowling centers by future Activision founders and programming virtuosos Bob Whitehead and Alan Miller, Atari released Tournament Table in 1978, standing as the ultimate four-player cocktail table arcade sports compilation, embedding four precision rotary paddle controllers directly into its sleek wood-and-glass cabinet to deliver 12 thrilling ball-and-paddle games—including four-player simultaneous Breakout, Soccer, Hockey, Foozpong, and Basketball.
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Tournament Table is a 1978 arcade video game released by Atari, Inc. The Atari VCS version is called Video Olympics.
Gameplay
Tournament Table is basically a multi-game arcade with several Pong variations. After inserting a coin, the player is prompted to choose one of the several games available. Those games are:
Breakout
Soccer (2 variations)
Foozpong
Hockey (3 variations)
Quadra Pong
Handball
Basketball (2 variations)
Breakout is the only one-player game, the other being for two, three, or four players.
