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- By Flipcommons Catalog
Theme read off the game's name and subject.
- theme
- Theme
- Sports
- By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)
- description
- *Rugby* is [[manufacturer:sidam]]'s unlicensed copy of [[manufacturer:atari]]'s *[[model:video-pinball]]*, reworked from a pinball simulation into a [[theme:sports]]-themed game. By 1979 the [[location:italy/to/turin]] firm had spent a couple of years rebuilding Atari's arcade video games from scratch,[1] and Rugby carried that run into Atari's pinball title — a machine promoted at its release as the earliest arcade video game to recreate pinball on a screen, its fluorescent 'disco' 3-D playfield of [[gameplay-feature:bumpers]], [[gameplay-feature:slingshots]], [[gameplay-feature:rollovers]] and [[gameplay-feature:drop-targets]] drawn entirely in the monitor.[2] Rather than merely rename the game, Sidam recast its whole visual environment.[3] The title is an accident of translation: gridiron football had scarcely any following in Italy at the time and was taken for a form of rugby, which likely gave the game its name.[3] Like Sidam's other clones it was a from-scratch [[technology-generation:solid-state]] *bootleg* — a [[game-format:video-game]] rather than a genuine pinball machine.
- 1.RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/
La SIDAM era una ditta di Torino che nel 1978 inizia a copiare videogiochi, specialmente ATARI.
2.Arcade History — https://www.arcade-history.com/?id=3069&n=video-pinball&page=detailVideo Pinball was the world's first video attraction to simulate a pinball game, and was an instant winner. With fluorescent 'disco' 3-D play-field, challenging targets, bumpers, slingshots, rollovers and drop targets, Atari Video Pinball had it all, but without all the mechanical objects associated with classic pinball games.
3.TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- model_relationship
- Target machine
- Video Pinball (Atari 1978)
- Relationship type
- Copy
- License status
- Unknown
- RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino
Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball
- By Flipcommons Catalog
lineage per the source line: Copy of Atari's 'Video Pinball' (1979) with a rugby retheme - tilt.it/deb: 'Rugby | 1979 | Copy of Video Pinball (Atari)'; RetroCampus: 'Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)'.
- corporate_entity
- SIDAM
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- game_format
- Video Game
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- name
- Rugby
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- player_count
- 2
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- slug
- rugby-sidam
- status
- active
- technology_generation
- Solid State
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- title
- Rugby
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.
- year
- 1979
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/sidam
Rugby (video-pinball)
Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/rugbyA video pinball game. Rugby was produced by Sidam in 1976.
RetroCampus — https://retrocampus.com/2015/12/31/sidam-videogiochi-a-torino/Rugby | 1979 | Da Video Pinball (Atari)
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/deb/sidam-en.htmlCompared to Atari Video Pinball, ambientation changes completely, and then the background on which was reflected the image of the monitor. At the time, American football was almost unknown in Italy, and was identified as "a sort of Rugby football", hence probably the name.