Thursday, October 05, 2006

PonPong, Atari Inc., 1972
g was the first succesful arcade video game. It was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Alan Alcorn. The game play was extremely simple. It has two players, both which controlled a vertical bar which could bounce back a moving dot which moving between the vertical bars. Nolan placed the first game machine in a local gas station. When he became back the machine ceased to operate which it was full of money. Pong became an instant success and it created the arcade video game industry. Several home versions were also made of the Pong game and it also created the home video game industry as well.
[Pong: The Revolutionary Game]

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