🎮On November 29, 1972 the table-tennis video game “Pong” was released by Atari. Pong was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game. Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console.

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#OTD in #ComputingHistory, November 29, 1972, Atari released Pong, the first commercially successful arcade game, sparking a revolution in gaming and computing. Pong was a digital take on table tennis, where players controlled paddles to hit a ball across the screen. Its simplicity and accessibility established video games as a new form of entertainment. | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

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