computer history museum

November 29, 1972: Atari introduces the Pong video arcade. Al Alcorn created it as a programming exercise, but Atari co-founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney were so impressed with it that they helped manufacture and distribute the finished product to all points across the U.S.A.

Pong would eventually enter the home market during the 1975 holiday season, and so would their competitors who created various Pong clones to take a bite out of Atari’s profits.

📷: Rob Boudon

(WK)

Hey I was just at the museum where they keep the prototype.