Pong
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Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. It was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell
An upright cabinet of Pong on display at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Atari engineer Allan Alcorn designed and built Pong as a training exercise.
The Pong prototype that was used in the tavern
The former site of Andy Capp's Tavern in 2023, which was replaced by the Rooster T. Feathers comedy club in 1984
Atari 2600
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The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released c. September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System, it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games
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…in Chicago, with Judge John Grady presiding. Magnavox won the suit against the remaining defendants. Atari may have delayed the announcement of the Atari 2600 by a few months to avoid disclosing information about the system under the settlement agreement. The Pong arcade games manufactured by Atari were a…
The first Stella prototype on display at the Computer History Museum
The second VCS model has lighter plastic molding and shielding, and a more angular shape, than the 1977 launch model.
Starting in 1980, the VCS has only four front switches and a capital-letters logotype.
CX30 paddle