> ...and can eventually find the name, has to be a hardcore pong fan.
>
>
> Notices unknown four player pong cab listed for sale and then vaguely recalls seeing
> flyer recently because the control panel is plain and simple looking.
>
> It is See-Fun's Olympic Tennis that is listed for sale.
>
> The seller is only correct if stating that a working See-Fun Olympic Tennis cab
> might be rare, but upright two-four pong player cabs shouldn't be rare.....at this
> time....maybe hard-to-find, but not rare. In another 20 years or so, then the
> seller's claim can be correct.
>
>
> The cab is missing the bezel piece and when seeing an image of the game on tv
> screen, it appears that maybe a replacement pcb that is not an actual Olympic Tennis
> pcb is inside the cab.
>
> I look at the flyer and illustration shows only the net line without any top and
> bottom border lines compared to the auction photo that does show top and bottom
> border lines. My guess is maybe the flyer illustration was printed before the actual
> game was released and Olympic Tennis does have top and bottom border lines or a
> different pcb was placed in auctioned cab because actual Olympic Tennis pcb no longer
> works.
>
> As I know at this time, Pong Doubles is only 2 or 4 player pong that was released
> early that it did not have top and bottom boundaries while the clones such as Tennis
> Tourney or Winner IV did inlcude top and bottom boundary feature.
>
>
> There is an ebay listing of a supposed See-Fun Olympic Tennis pcb at this time.
>
> It would be interesting to find out if See-Fun's version also supports top and
> bottom boundary feature like the other Atari competitors have.
Nice detective work there Greg! 
If it were local to me I'd plunk down $100 for it, but it's on the wrong end of the continent.
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