Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor of Pong, will talk about the early history of Atari and how Pong launched ...

The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.

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 ...

The video game market is an important pillar of the modern entertainment industry. At-home gaming is an increasingly popular pastime, with blockbuster names like "Fortnite" and "Call of Duty" ...

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 ...

It might be called the grandfather of the PS5. An original prototype of Atari’s “Home Pong” unit from 1975 sold for $270,910 at an auction this month. The video game -- one of the first produced and ...

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 ...

Two lines move on either end of the screen, a pixelated dot volleys between them and a score displays at the top. That's really all there was to Pong – and that was really all it needed to become the ...

An original prototype of an Atari “Home Pong” unit—remembered as one of the earliest video games and the first to be commercially successful—sold for $270,910 at auction, straight from the collection ...

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 ...