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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The era of modern gaming began over 50 years ago — and in the time since Pong (1972), video games have gone from minimalistic engineering oddities to multi-billion dollar franchises that make ...

ANTHONY HOWELL: (As Margit the Fell) Someone must extinguish thy flame. Let it be Margit the Fell. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: So that is the sound of a video game. These days, games have the look and feel ...

My passion for technology stems from a lifelong love of gaming. I received my first video game console when I was just 3 years old—a 16-bit Sega Genesis handed down to me by my father. And so this ...

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 ...

Many of you have probably heard of ‘Pong’, a legendary video game that was released back in 1972. Well, Pong is now half a century old, as it celebrated its 50th birthday on November 29. ‘Pong’ game ...

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 ...