Designer(s) Steve Bristow Genre(s) Sports simulation CPU discrete Series Pong Developers Atari, Kee Games | Release date(s) NA: 1974 Cabinet cocktail Initial release date March 1974 Platform Arcade game Publishers Atari, Kee Games | |
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Sound Amplified Mono (one channel) Sports games Pong, Video Olympics, Atari Football, Basketball, Shuuz | ||
Elimination is a four-player version of Pong by Atari Inc. subsidiary Kee Games, and designed by Steve Bristow. It was later released as Quadrapong under the Atari label.
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Technology
Elimination and its Quadrapong counterpart were the first cocktail cabinet arcade video games. The cabinet consists of a woodgrain 35" x 37" cocktail cabinet. Two control paddles are mounted on each side of the cabinet, with a horizontally mounted Zenith television diagonally set in the cabinet.
Gameplay
Two, three, or four players move their paddles to defend their goal area, consisting of openings in the players' walls. Each player starts with four points, and loses one point each time the ball penetrates their goal. If all four points are lost the player's paddle is removed and the goal "closes", creating a solid wall and removing the player from the game. The game continues until only one player is left.
Clones
The simultaneously released Atari version, Quadrapong, has a white cocktail cabinet that measured 35" x 24.25".