#OTD in #ComputingHistory, November 29, 1972, Atari released Pong, the first commercially successful arcade game, sparking a revolution in gaming and computing. Pong was a digital take on table tennis, where players controlled paddles to hit a ball across the screen. Its simplicity and accessibility established video games as a new form of entertainment. | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

On November 29, 1972, the Atari Corporation first announced Pong, an early video game popular both at home and in arcades. In Pong, players were represented by paddles that could move up and down to try to deflect a ball and keep it from passing into their goal. Pong went on to create a gaming a craze. #history #retrogaming | Computer Love Records

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