Author: WTM / Source: Neatorama

The very first video game, every schoolchild knows, was Pong, the thrill-a-minute table tennis adventure in which players bounced a white cube back and forth forever. Designed by Allan Alcorn, the first Pong prototype appeared on an Atari system in a Sunnyvale, California bar in 1972.
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