50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. To mark the anniversary, Atari co-founder and Pong designer Allan Alcorn spoke with NPR to reflect on the game's development.

50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. To mark the anniversary, Atari co-founder and Pong designer Allan Alcorn spoke with NPR to reflect on the game's development.

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 was one of the first video games to really enter the public consciousness. ... It’s paired with an SSD1306 OLED screen of 124 x 32 resolution. That might not sound like much, ...

Atari announced a revolutionary new way to play table tennis on Nov. 29, 1972. Pong became the first wildly popular video game, igniting an industry that boomed over the next 50 years.

Zen pong is the right game for you. Genres. Adventure. Platforms. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5. Release Date. ... Loading Screen Simulator doesn’t even tell you what you’re trying to download, ...

Pong, while not the first videogame, was the first coin-op arcade game and the first mainstream videogame that was available to almost everyone. Pong was the impetus for the development of the ...

Pong is played on a video screen. A black rectangle defines the table, and a white cursor represents each player's paddle, which can be moved up or down to intercept a white ball.

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 ...