Atari produced a few pinball machines during the 1970's. The games featured exciting artwork, and innovative playfield designs, but were plagued with technical problems which have made several of the games fairly rare over the years as they were often either dismantled or thrown out by their operators.

But even Atari did some testing on the machines before they designed the artwork. During testing they used this backscreen on the machines:



All these pinball machines were made before Atari started with Space Invaders, Asteroids and last but not least: Pac Man!