Nov. 29, 1972: Pong, a Game Any Drunk Can Play

1972: Pong, the first popular videogame, is released in its original arcade-game form.
If it seems crude by today’s standards, well, it was crude then, too. And it was meant to be. Pong was the brainchild of Nolan Bushnell, a founder of Atari, who was inspired to develop it after playing an electronic table-tennis game at [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/11/1129pong/

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