Pong cover

Pong 1972

Released
November 29, 1972
Genres
Simulator · Sport · Arcade
Platforms
Arcade · PC · Plug & Play · Legacy Mobile Device
Developer
Atari
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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
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Is it still worth playing?

Allan Alcorn created this 1972 arcade sports game, a two dimensional simulation of table tennis, as a training exercise assigned by the co founder Nolan Bushnell. Each player moves a paddle vertically along the left or right side of the screen and hits a ball back and forth, against another player. Points are earned when one side fails to return the ball, and the goal is to reach eleven points before the opponent. Bushnell based the concept on an electronic ping-pong game on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console. Two paddles and a ball make a duel that is easy to follow, and it still is.

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