T he Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial ...

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 ...

No one could have predicted that fifty-three years ago this game would have led to the success of the video game indsutry.

On this day in pop culture history, Atari’s Pong game becomes partially responsible for the craze of video games and Jimmy ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Atari PONG Coffee Table, a home-use electromechanical game that replicates the 1972 Atari game PONG, is back thanks to Alan-1 TOOELE, UT, UNITED STATES, November 4, 2025 / EINPresswire.com / -- ...

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 ...

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 ...