NAME: The Atarians
RELEASED: November 1976
PLAYERS: 4
THEME: Adventure

The Atarians was the first pinball to utilize a wide-body style of playfield which would be continued in all other released Atari pinballs, and copied by several other manufacturers until going out of style only a few years later.

Atari used ball sensors underneath the playfield instead of switches for trigger scores. Where there would typically be rollover target, like in an outlane, there is a picture of a rollover (star shaped) target, but there is actually a ball sensor mounted underneath the playfield instead of a switch. Atarians was the only Atari pinball and possibly the only pinball made by anyone that used these. (Dale Luck)

PROM files (~4k)*

Atarians Wiring Diagram (PDF - 323k)

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* Special thanks to Jess Askey for the flyer image scans.

* Special thanks to Dwight Elvey for the ROM images.

* Special thanks to Dale Luck for the photos.

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