The game is very simple, but fun and addictive tennis electronic where both players and turn the vertical movement away platforms, the balance of payments on the recording digitally, fourth and historical mega-hit video game industry definition kickoff and scope in the history of popular culture . As simple as a game by today's standards be, and the history of Pong littered with conflicts and controversies.
Basics:
- Address: Pong
- Publisher / Manufacturer: Atari, Inc.
- Release Date: 1972 (the coin-operated games version), 1974 (Main Version)
Date Pong:
He also says the slogan "In the beginning was the Pong", many believe that Pong was the first video game, but in fact, many of the new features in the games that preceded it, beginning with the experimental technique of tennis for two year (1958), and computer labs PDP shooter Spacewar!, the first coin dedicated arcade game Computer Space and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and Ted DBNA first game Galaxy game title (1971) (both clone Spacewar!) and let us Do not forget, the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game and the unity of the nation.
Was made for the Galaxy game and distributed by Nutting Associates, saw modest success. This Nolan Bushnell and Ted DBNA paid to go on his own, so they formed their own company first Syzygy technique that changed later because of a dispute Atari brand. With the intentions of the design and launch their own games, and the first thing they need to staff so that they hired first, they have to staff and are now connected more and more as a society, and that he make a development team founder Nolan Bushnell and Ted DBNA, so they hired a design engineer Al Alcorn, a former colleague of DBNA.
As a test and Bushnell and Alcorn DBNA design and construction was a demonstration on the basis of the game saw the Bushnell next Magnavox Odyssey. Alcorn went to work and blew away all of the results and quickly went on the fast track to be the first arcade game by Atari.
Been installed coin op arcade pong model in a bar called Andy Cap pub, and within a few weeks, full of so many pages that put the game he was. After taking a loan, entered the manufacturing Pong was Atari, Inc. in the economy.
The Home-Pong:
In 1972 he published in the same year, Arcade Pong, Magnavox Odyssey was launched as the first home video games to life. System was a solid success, including with carts of exchange, various games, as well as overlay and TV accessories such as cards and dice and poker chips.
Following the publication of a large number of tanks Pong games locally and abroad, and others like the space race, and the recovery of gotcha, Atari was looking for his next project. So clearly dominated the corridors, they began eyeing the living room, and the competition at this time came from the Odyssey.
In 1974, the company signed a contract with Atari Sears to launch the first version of the House of Pong. Trolley or cartridges, the system and a dedicated device, which means that the game is self-sufficient in the unit. She has published the first system to also Tele-Games burned and immediately took the hottest main selling point for the holiday shopping season for Christmas, with sales in the shadows, that the Magnavox Odyssey.
Study:
One year after the holiday season dominated tennis, Magnavox filled a complaint against Atari to intervene with "exclusive rights". Pong was basically very similar in design and concept of Pong, and the proof that Bushnell was one of the participants in the show Magnavox Odyssey , extrajudicial agreement expired.
While he played Pong in structure and Magnavox Odyssey, there was a completely different game and so friendly. Show Odyssey has two boxes place Bopping place in the third round and the fourth for the majority of their games, but these funds provide a range (or reward) is not only up and down, but right through the left side and two on the control button. Tennis, on the other hand, the use of two flat paddles, which can only move up and down, bopping back and fourth ghost circle.
Send cloning:
Success grows imitators and Atari was his empire built everything imaginable on the idea of another company, General Surgery trying to make a fortune by playing. Develops the GI AY-3-8500 chip, which was the exact Pong clone, and also many differences from the game. Soon every company can produce up pony and publish their own video game for the chip.
Included are some of the most notorious clones Tennis Coleco Telstar and video game system from Nintendo first, color TV Game sixth
Make Pong video game history
While it is not the original game, and it certainly was not the first video game, is without doubt the largest Pong ever published in any game. Kicking it in the great commercial success of the video game industry, being a small market, the family crush.
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