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The factory flyer for the Handicap conversion can be found here: https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=3108&image=1 Another feature of Handicap besides being able to set paddle sizes is that it added a start switch and an adjustable curve ball to the game.

re: chipplots - Before his passing, he passed a number of these to us. Additionally, the Strong Museum in Rochester NY obtained some from him. In both cases, I'm talking about game related plots. I'm not sure where any computer related plots are. re: site: Thanks. BTW: I've tried to reach out to Marty in the past but have not been successful.

So while not the first coin-op commercially produced video game (Computer Space), Pong was Atari's first game and also was the first video game we know of for which a conversion kit was sold (by a third party). Not to be confused with the countless pong knockoffs that soon followed, JRW's Handicap was intended to upgrade/convert an existing Atari Pong cabinet. In the one in our collection, it actually consists of a daughter board that connects to and retains the original Pong pcb (along with an upgraded control panel)! Each player can independently set their own difficulty level (paddle size) and manually serve the balls... I thought I'd share since the JRW version isn't well known (even amongst the coin-op oriented KLOV members on my site) but its place in history as the first coin-op video game conversion and connection to Atari's first game seemed to warrant sharing here. Side note: This isn't the first arcade conversion. Arcade machine conversions have been popular since at least as far back as the late 1920s (1926 to 1929), and were quite common during World War II as new games weren't been made while factories were focused on supporting the war effort. 2 photos of control panels from machines in our collection: The first is from Pong serial #1 (ex-Curt Vendel, signed by Nolan Bushnell). The second is from our JRW conversion machine.

They seem different, though they sure look like they were built about the same time. The marque looks very similar as does the sides. Obviously the ones above are display locking cabinets. The ones on the page you liked to are playable kiosks. I don't think the cabinets ever started off as kiosks, but who knows. I've had a 5200 kiosk for years as seen on the '2600displaydemo' page you linked to. I've never even heard of the 2600 version actually (still) existing. When I get a chance I'll take a closer look at the 5200 kiosk to see if it is designed to pull the 'kiosk' part out. If so, probably not intentionally, but a side effect of how it was assembled in the first place.

@Jfrik84 Congrats on a nice find. Impressive. That's the 3rd one of these that have popped up in the last 2 weeks, and the second in the last week. The first showed up quietly. The second on Facebook last Wednesday, and now this one. The one on FB might have been for sale, but then it seems the owner might have changed their mind. Photos of the FB one: