Russell's quote rings true in this instance too; if Pong never caught on, we’d simply be crediting a different title for introducing the product to the market, perhaps even a better title. Thank Asteroids, or Joust, or Defender. The entrepreneurs that tried to bring video games…
Winston Wolf · October 2, 2010 · 8 comments
Introduction Atari's first title swept the country like a disabling plague. Patrons of bars and arcades everywhere spent all their change in 1972 on a fascinating machine where elongated glowing bricks could reflect a square back and forth. Pong singlehandedly began the…
whelkman · May 26, 2008
We all know what Pong is by now, it's pretty much the first commercial home based game ever released. Sure, there could be a debate as to what the first ever game was, but I'm just going to go easy and not bore you with the history of this game, because you can go buy a book or…
psychopenguin · May 20, 2007
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