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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 ...

53 Years Ago Today, One of Gaming’s Most Pivotal Releases Happened

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

This is how a primitive arcade game helped to build a $100 billion industry

This post is sponsored by Dell Technologies and Intel® – partners in digital transformation. Intel Inside®. Powerful Productivity Outside. Learn more at delltechnologies.com. The $100 billion video ...
Houston Chronicle

Outdated oil ban needs to go the way of Pong

Slide a quarter into the Pong machine and get ready to party like it's 1972, because Texas crude oil production is on a path to exceed record levels not seen since the days of Dick Nixon and Hanoi ...
IGN

Atari's Pong, and the Game Industry, Turn 40

On November 29, 1972, Atari announced the release of its coin-operated machine, Pong. It wasn't entirely original: Another coin-op game, Computer Space, pre-dated Pong, but proved unpopular; and the ...
Hackaday

Framed PONG Is Picture Perfect

How cool would it have been if arcade cabinets had acrylic panels all along that let you gaze upon the field of TTL chips within? When [Jürgen Müller] scored the innards of an original 1972 PONG ...