Pong — Retro Gaming Essentials (No. 38)

My thoughts are going to jump all over the place on this one, and I apologize for that in advance. But as you shall soon see, this is absolutely necessary, because of the following:

  1. The history surrounding the granddaddy of video games is rich and some of the most important gaming lore you can expose yourself to.
  2. The game itself is stupid simple.

This dictates we’ll spend less time on the game itself and more on its context, which I think is appropriate.

So buckle up for a trip through the earliest EARLIEST days of video game history, a crap-ton of Atari trivia, a significant tangent into Breakout, and oh yeah, even some discussion of the game in the headline itself.

This, my friends, is “Pong.”

Pong at a glance:

Genre: Twitch arcade game
Released: 1972
Platform: Arcade
No. 34 on Next Generation’s Top 50 Games of All Time
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