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12 thoughts on “50 years of pong!!!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Old school Museum says:

    I don’t own a Atari I own sega genesis a wii and a switch I like Atari break out more

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Benrose says:

    You are the most interesting person I have ever came across …so cool Fran

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Emilia Olfelt says:

    i am half as old as pong

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars たろきち says:

    Oh!nostalgic game.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars annakeye says:

    It was called 'TV Tennis' here in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ken Smith says:

    Very early home made pong games had bags and bags full of TTL circuits and analog circuits and some of the TTL was sort of analog and some of the analog was sort of digital. The position of the ball was two analog voltages. It was very clever circuits.
    Today, it would likely be written in C++ for Windows-11, need an 8 core CPU plus graphics card.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars spahndirge says:

    Whatever happened to Pong?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tactileslut says:

    I have a discrete logic board that plays Pong. Don't laugh, and no, it's not currently for sale.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars whiteman1506 says:

    I turned 50 this year also. So happy birthday Pong. 😁

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars d610 says:

    Looking great Fran good to see you in the shorts thing!!! Now I want to go play some pong….

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars CARL iCON says:

    a simple coin-op bar videogame that started a revolution…Pong inspired Breakout from Jobs & Woz which helped them fund Apple…the rest is history

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars JakesOnline says:

    We had the home system. At the time I didn't know there was an arcade version.

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