One cardboard box in 1977 quietly ended the living room as you knew it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...

Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game “Pong,” died May 26 at his home in ...

The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor ...

These are simulations of some of the most popular Pong consoles from the 1970s. The consoles included are: Atari Home Pong (C-100) Atari Super Pong (C-140) Coleco Telstar Nintendo Color TV-Game 6 We ...

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