Atari Arcade Classics

Atari Arcade Classics was a planned but never-produced home pinball machine designed by John Popadiuk and Chris Nicolella, conceived by Roger Shiffman and Marc Rosenberg for Zizzle Arcade Pinball (active 2006-2007). Only a single real prototype was ever built; per Popadiuk, all of the artwork was completed and a molded "Asteroid" toy was sculpted and sample parts made, but the game never reached production.

As designed, the game would have offered a blend of solid-state electronic features with traditional pinball mechanics: two flippers, three pop bumpers, two slingshots, and stand-up targets, alongside an LCD scoring display and LED game lighting. Planned audio included music, sound effects, and speech, with an end-of-ball bonus score and tilt ending the ball in play, across optional 3- or 5-ball games with extra balls.

Designwise, the planned cabinet featured a wood playfield with heat transfer laminate artwork, an injection-molded backglass with LED illumination (an upgrade over the prior WWE Raw vs. Smackdown design), and playfield bumpers with their own LED lighting. As with its sister game, this unproduced title is tied to US Design Patent D579,055, filed by John Popadiuk Jr. et al. in September 2006, evidence of real engineering behind a project that was ultimately shelved before reaching stores.