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 ...

Topline. An original prototype of an Atari “Home Pong” unit—remembered as one of the earliest video games and the first to be commercially successful—sold for $270,910 at auction, straight ...

A look at the original Atari Pong game. Screengrab. This week marks a half century since the eccentric Nolan Bushnell — who also founded Chuck E. Cheese — and Ted Dabney started the pioneering ...

Now, it's Pong. Atari's U.S. subsidiary, the creator of Pong, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, ... A large portion of the appeal of these original games was their low-fi approach.

March 21 (UPI) --An original prototype for Atari's Home Pong video game system was auctioned for more than $270,000 and came from the collection of the landmark game's creator.RR Auction, based in ...

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 of ...

On November 29, 1972, Atari announced the release of its coin-operated machine, Pong. It wasn't entirely original: Another coin-op game, Computer Space, pre-dated Pong, but proved unpopular; and ...

Original Pong arcade game. ... To celebrate the game’s anniversary, Atari on Thursday released a free iOS version of Pong called Pong World for a new generation of gamers.