Friday, January 9, 2015

How Pong and the Odyssey Console Launched the Videogame Era


Although there are many inventions that could reasonably make some claim to being the first videogame, there’s no question what the first big hit game was: Atari’s Pong. The iconic table-tennis game became an overnight sensation after a prototype first appeared in a bar in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972, and in no time at all videogames went from almost zero to a multi-billion dollar global industry.

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