Game pong wikipedia

Pong is one of the first computer games that ever created, this simple "tennis like" game features two paddles and a ball, the goal is to defeat your opponent by being the first one to gain10 point, a player gets a point once the opponent misses a ball.

The game can be played with two human players, or one player against a computer controlled paddle. The game was originally developed by Allan Alcorn and released in by Atari corporations. Soon, Pong became a huge success, and became the first commercially successful game, on , Atari release a home edition of Pong the first version was played on Arcade machines which sold , units. Today, the Pong Game is considered to be the game which started the video games industry, as it proved that the video games market can produce significant revenues.

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari at in order to create games and ideas and license them to other companies for mass production.

Pong was actually a training exercise for one of Atari's employees - Allan Alcorn, once it was finished, Nolan made few adjustments in order to make the game more interesting like changing the ball's return angle and added simple sound effects.

The first Pong Arcade machine was installed on a local bar, and it was so successful that Atari decided to produce and sell the game by themselves, rather then licensing it to other companies.

In the company finally got a line of credit from Wells Fargo and started an assembly line, by the end of the year, Pong arcade machines were shipped to location all over the U. Similar to other famous games such as Pacman and Tetris , Pong became one of the symbols of computer gaming.

Bushnell looked and played the game and Atari manufactured it. The game is a 2-d sports game played in a simple way. The player uses the paddle to knock the ball back and forth and must get the ball past the other paddle to get a score.

The score is represented by digits on top of the screen. The control is a dial. Magnavox and Sander Associates claimed that Pong and the other variations were copied from the ping pong game on the Odyssey.

The judge had a look of the circuitry of a cabinet of Pong and saw a demonstration of the safaping pong game on the Odyysey and ruled in Baer's favor. Bushnell felt the best way to compete against imitators was to create better products, leading Atari to produce sequels in the years followings the original's release: Pong Doubles, Super Pong, Quadrapong, and Pin-Pong. The sequels featured similar graphics, but included new gameplay elements; for example, Pong Doubles allows four players to compete in pairs, while Quadrapong has them compete against each other in a four way field.

Bushnell also conceptualized a free-to-play version of Pong to entertain children in a Doctor's office. He initially titled it Snoopy Pong and fashioned the cabinet after Snoopy's doghouse with the character on top, but retitled it to Puppy Pong and altered Snoopy to a generic dog to avoid legal action.

Bushnell later used the game in his chain of Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants. In , Atari released Breakout, a single-player variation of Pong where the object of the game is to remove bricks from a wall by hitting them with a ball.

By November , the first Pong was completed. It consisted of a black and white television from Walgreens, the special game hardware, and a coin mechanism from a laundromat on the side which featured a milk carton inside to catch coins.

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