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 ...

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 ...

Today marks 50 years since the gaming giant Atari first released Pong into an unsuspecting world. The “first commercially successful video game in history”, the electronic table tennis game has ...

Two moving lines, a dot that volleys between them and a score display at the top - that's really all there was to the game Pong. (SOUNDBITE OF PONG SOUND EFFECTS) SHAPIRO: And that was all it needed ...

I wasn't expecting to get a press release about a sequel to Pong in the year two thousand and twenty-three, but not all surprises are bad ones - Qomp2 looks weirdly awesome. Atari is billing Qomp2 as ...

A game that is easy to learn, but difficult to master. This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into Allan Alcorn, a then-24-year-old engineer, prior to the development of one of ...

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games. While ...

Allan Alcorn was desperate when he hired a young college dropout named Steve Jobs. Atari, the fledgling computer games company he worked for, was scrambling to staff up after the sudden success of its ...

Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry by cofounding Atari Inc. and helping to create the hit console game "Pong," died May 26 at his home ...

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 ...