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 ...

That small start-up called Atari — which launched on June 27 ... “How do you draw the line from Pong to, say, Fortnite? It’s a complex story,” said Payne. This week marks a half century ...

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 ...

That's really all there was to Pong – and that was really all it needed to become the first widely played commercial video game. 50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game.

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 ...

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.