The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.

Every industry has its defining moment, one spark that ignites an entire cultural movement. In gaming, that spark wasn’t a blockbuster console launch or a cinematic open-world epic, but something far ...

The man who designed Pong was 24 years old when he installed the first arcade version of the video game at a bar in Sunnyvale in 1972. Allan Alcorn returned to the same spot on June 10 after the ...

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor ...

Cape Girardeau native David Tlapek shares memories of the first time he played the video game Pong in the 1970s and how it forever changed the way he thought of television. Believe it or not, there ...