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Pong

On the timeline · around 1972 · Pong1970197119721973197419751976

What happened

In 1972 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, and engineer Allan Alcorn built Pong, a simple electronic table-tennis game. A prototype placed in a California bar was so popular its coin box overflowed, and Atari announced the game on 29 November 1972.

Why it matters

Pong launched the video game craze, reinvigorated the arcades, and made Atari the first successful video game company.

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