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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every industry has its defining moment, one spark that ignites an entire cultural movement. In gaming, that spark wasn’t a blockbuster console launch or a cinematic open-world epic, but something far ...

Atari is distancing itself from the PONG cryptocurrency, accusing the token of using its trademarked property without permission. Atari is distancing itself from a cryptocurrency whose name could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al Alcorn, the Atari pioneer and creator of the first commercially successful video game, Pong, has launched a new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a new mobile game called ...

As promised, organisers behind Atari's Pong Indie Developer Challenge have revealed the 20 indie developers advancing past the first round. The competition, which kicked off back in March, challenges ...

by Tim Sweezy — Friday, March 15, 2024, 10:42 AM EDT An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a ...