Pong
1972
sports video game
- Developer
- Atari
- Publisher
- Atari, Inc.
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Game modes
- shared/splitscreen multiplayer, multiplayer video game
- Released
- 1972-11-29
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 and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were so surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work that they decided to manufacture the game. Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console; in response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement.
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- First released 1972-11-29
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