If you think the PS5 is expensive, get a load of Atari’s “Home Pong” prototype. The original 1975, hand-carved wood mock-up of the Pong system recently sold for $270,910 at auction ...

Renting an old roller-skating rink and recruiting a workforce that included high school dropouts, Hells Angels and the recently paroled, Atari's Pong assembly line started slow... like only 10 ...

This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong ... a line of credit from Wells Fargo to adjust accordingly. But success inevitably incurred additional costs. Atari ...

This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into 24-year-old engineer Allan Alcorn, prior to their development of one of the most recognizable games of all time, "Pong," 50 years ago.

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 ...

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. BRANDON QUINTANA: "A game that is easy to ...

Pong was released by Atari 50 years ago. Two moving lines, a dot that volleys between them and a score display at the top - that's really all there was to the game Pong. (SOUNDBITE OF PONG SOUND ...

Iconic game developer Atari has opened a competition to independent mobile game creators to design an original, modern version of its first ever video game - Pong.