PONG 1972 - Game on!

46 years ago, on November 29, 1972, the then young company Atari released the PONG slot machine.

Pong was the first game developed by Atari and is one of the earliest arcade video games, it is a tennis sports game using simple 2D graphics.

Nolan Bushnell came up with the idea of ping-pong for the creation of the game to his employee, programmer Allan Alcorn. Allan had no game development experience at the time, and Pong became a training project for him.

At the time, the idea of video game ping pong had already been pursued by Magnavox Odyssey, leading to a lawsuit against Atari.