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 ...

Pong was released in 1972. The video game Pong turns 50 this year. The rules are simple. It’s ping-pong, so you and another person each control a paddle on the screen — hit a ball back and forth and ...

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 ...

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’ game ...

Before PC-based gaming platforms like today’s Portal 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Minecraft —-even before disc-based systems like PlayStation, Xbox and Wii and as far back as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong ...

' Neural Pong ' has been released, a clone of the table tennis game ' Pong,' released in 1972, using a neural network. The revolutionary aspect of this 'Neural Pong' is that rather than a neural ...

PARIS (AP) — The electronic bleeps and squawks of “Tetris,” ”Donkey Kong” and other generation-shaping games that you may never have thought of as musical are increasingly likely to be playing at a ...

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 ...

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 ...