Atari's Pong is now half a century old

Happy birthday, Pong, and thank you for inspiring countless sequels and knockoffs, as well as the careers of an entire generation of video game designers. Exactly 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis - a fact that would eventually lead to two decades of lawsuits. But in Pong, the early video game industry was born. Released in 1972, Atari sold more than 8,000 Pong arcade cabinets. A few years later, the home version of Pong would become an instant success, with Sears selling about 150,000 units of the console you needed to play the game.
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[@jayantbhatt007]

I'm reading Steve Job's biography and they mentioned all the people so just came here to check.

[@fullspectrumdominanc]

God bless the creator of the first video game leisure time has never been boring since 🎉

[@billb6283]

You say Home Pong spawned many copy cats. But actually the Magnavox Odyssey released Sept 1972 predates even the Atari Arcade Pong released Nov 1972.

[@NikodAnimations]

After Magnavox, there were like a million Pong consoles that only played Pong.