Pong - the first video game megahit

The game is very simple, but fun and addictive game where two players in turn controls the vertical movement away platforms and the balance of payments digital ball back and fourth electronic tennis, the historic mega meet again the video game industry, their scope in history of pop culture. Be as simple as a game by today's standards, the history of tennis and littered with conflicts and controversies.

Basics:

• Address: Pong
• Publisher / Developer: Atari, Inc.
• Release Date: 1972 (Coin Op Arcade version) 0.1974 (main version)

Date of Tennis:

He also says the slogan that many believe that Pong was the first video game, but in fact, many of the innovations games that preceded it, beginning with the tennis technical demo for two years ("In the beginning was the Pong was" 1958 ), and computer labs PDP shooter Spacewar!, both were the first coin-op arcade games and computer Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and Ted space dbna first game Galaxy title game (1971) (clones Spacewar!) and do not forget 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game console.

The game has been manufacturing and distribution of the Galaxy by Nutting Associates, has seen modest success. This payment Nolan Bushnell and Ted dbna his own, they formed their company technology that changed the first point of pairing later on Atari because of a dispute brands. With the intention to design and launch their own games, and the first thing they need to personally, so they set initially, the employee must, she was out of the race, as a rapidly growing, and it is in need of of the development team about the founder Nolan Bushnell and Ted dbna so they set designer Al Alcorn, a former colleague of DBNA.

As a test and dbna Bushnell and Alcorn was to design and build a system based on the demonstration of the game, the Bushnell next Magnavox Odyssey have seen. Alcorn went to work and blew everyone away with the results and went quickly into the fast lane, the first Atari arcade game.

Been installed coin-op arcade pong model in a bar named Andy Cap-Bar, and within a few weeks, full of both sides of the game he was stuck. After taking a loan, entered and Atari Pong in manufacturing, the company has been in business.

The Home-pong:

In 1972, the same year published Arcade Pong, the first video game console Magnavox Odyssey was launched. System was a solid success, including with carts of exchange, various games, as well as overlay and TV accessories like cards and dice and poker chips.

After the release of a large number of national and foreign companies Pong and other card games like the space race, and the re-gotcha, and Atari in search of his next project. While it dominates the hallway clear, they began eyeing the living room, and the competition at that time came from the Odyssey.

In 1974 an agreement with Atari Sears, the first version of Pong signed to start at home, and instead of carts or cartridges, system, and a special unit, which means that the game into a separate entity. The first system was used as a burned tele-games and took the key and stores the item for the holiday Christmas with sales in the shadows, that the Magnavox Odyssey to be immediately.

Study:

One year after the holiday season dominated tennis, and disrupt a complaint against Magnavox Atari with the "exclusive rights". Pong was basically quite similar in design and concept of Pong, and the proof that Bushnell was one of the participants in the demonstration, Magnavox Odyssey, and eventually settled out of court.

While he played Pong in structure and Magnavox Odyssey, and he does not quite gracious and play different. Show Odyssey has two square boxes bopping back box, the third and fourth for the majority of their games, but this money a pallet (or reward) can not only move up and down, but the left and right with two consoles knobbed. Pong on the other hand, uses two flat paddle that can move up and down, and always break my specter of the fourth round.

Send Cloning:

Success grows imitators and it was all built on the Atari Empire by imaginable idea, sought another company, general tools to make a fortune by playing. IM and placed chip AY-3-8500 notorious that the exact pong clone, but also many differences to the game was soon every company can produce for the chip Pony and publish their own video game.

Included some of the clones, Coleco Telstar Pong notorious and the first video game system from Nintendo, TV Game 6 are

Pong is the story of the video game

It is not to be the original game, and certainly was not the first video game, Pong is undoubtedly the most important game ever published. His major commercial success comes from the video game industry, a small market, to crush the family.