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 ...

During one year, a staggering 3,500 Pong arcade cabinets were made and sold after Bushnell sold 300 cabinets in one hour after his first attempt at a sales call. (Image: Atari) During one year, a ...

"Avoid missing ball for high score." With those six words, Atari launched an industry in the early 1970s. The words were the complete instructions for Pong. Their brevity perfectly embodied Pong's ...

Many of you have probably heard of ‘Pong’, a legendary video game that was released back in 1972. Well, Pong is now half a century old, as it celebrated its 50th birthday on November 29. ‘Pong’ game ...

1972: Pong, the first popular videogame, is released in its original arcade-game form. If it seems crude by today's standards, well, it was crude then, too. And it was meant to be. Pong was the ...

Before PC-based gaming platforms like today’s Portal 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Minecraft —-even before disc-based systems like PlayStation, Xbox and Wii and as far back as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong ...

' Neural Pong ' has been released, a clone of the table tennis game ' Pong,' released in 1972, using a neural network. The revolutionary aspect of this 'Neural Pong' is that rather than a neural ...

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 ...

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 ...