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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Groundbreaking consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey and Atari 2600 helped change gaming forever.

A game that is easy to learn, but difficult to master. This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into Allan Alcorn, a then-24-year-old engineer, prior to the development of one of ...

Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry by cofounding Atari Inc. and helping to create the hit console game "Pong," died May 26 at his home ...

Anyone in Massachusetts who grew up going to arcades remembers playing Atari games, as well playing the Atari video game console. The company is celebrating 50 years of business and is re-launching a ...

If you’ve been miss the heart-pounding action from retro video games like Pong, Centipede and Astroids, you’re going to love this huge Amazon deal. Amazon has slashed the price on the Atari ...

London, United Kingdom — November 4 th, 2010 — Atari Europe, one of the world’s most recognised videogame publishers of interactive entertainment, today announced the launch of Atari PlayStation ...

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 ...