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Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades.It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry. The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, to develop arcade games, starting with Pong in 1972.
Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
A simple game of ping-pong made video games into a force to be reckoned with in 1972. ... the inaugural Atari 2600 cartridge-playing console went on sale and Pong was among the games included on ...
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. Atari's Pong is now half a century old ...
The first generation of consoles were on sale between 1972 and 1980 and included the Magnavox Odyssey, Telstar, Home Pong, and Color TV-Game. Typical characteristics of the first generation of consoles: Discrete transistor-based digital game logic. Games were native components of consoles rather than based on external or removable media.
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...
Today, PodPlay has over 70 venues (including the 18 PingPod outlets) signed up on the system across table tennis, billiards, baseball batting cages, pickleball, padel, soccer, golf simulators ...