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Pong debuted on this day in 1972 — Atari's pioneering CPU-less video arcade game’s creation was the result of an engineer training exercise
T he Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial ...
No one could have predicted that fifty-three years ago this game would have led to the success of the video game indsutry.
Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test drive to announce on Nov. 29 that they'd be rolling out Pong cabinets for ...
Exactly 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – a fact that would eventually lead to two decades of ...
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This Day in Pop Culture for November 29
On this day in pop culture history, Atari’s Pong game becomes partially responsible for the craze of video games and Jimmy ...
It might be called the grandfather of the PS5. An original prototype of Atari’s “Home Pong” unit from 1975 sold for $270,910 at an auction this month. The video game -- one of the first produced and ...
'PONG' is being reimagined as a humorous role-playing game from original creator Atari and developer Chequered Ink for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC via online storefront Steam.
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. 2020 is barely three months in, and it has hit the world with a nonstop stream of surprises, both good and bad. In this perilous time of ...
As the pandemic raged in 2020, a revolution played out in the entertainment world. In that year, video game revenue grew 20% to a whopping $179.7 billion — pulling in more money than global movies and ...
Happy birthday, Pong, and thank you for inspiring countless sequels and knockoffs, as well as the careers of an entire generation of video game designers. BRANDON QUINTANA: "A game that is easy to ...
This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...
If you think the PS5 is expensive, get a load of Atari’s “Home Pong” prototype. The original 1975, hand-carved wood mock-up of the Pong system recently sold for $270,910 at auction, according to ...
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