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 ...

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 ...

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

' 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 ...

Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29, 1972, and ...

Pong was released in 1972. The video game Pong turns 50 this year. The rules are simple. It’s ping-pong, so you and another person each control a paddle on the screen — hit a ball back and forth and ...

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 ...

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 ...