Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...

Happy birthday, Pong, and thank you for inspiring countless sequels and knockoffs, as well as the careers of an entire generation of video game designers. BRANDON QUINTANA: "A game that is easy to ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Allan Alcorn, the creator of Pong, about how the game impacted the industry and his life. Pong was released by Atari 50 years ago. Two moving lines, a dot that volleys ...

Computer Space never quite took off into the stratosphere, but the two aspiring entrepreneurs knew they were on to something. They had formed a futuristic-sounding startup named Syzygy and departed ...

Allan Alcorn was desperate when he hired a young college dropout named Steve Jobs. Atari, the fledgling computer games company he worked for, was scrambling to staff up after the sudden success of its ...

Today marks 50 years since the gaming giant Atari first released Pong into an unsuspecting world. The “first commercially successful video game in history”, the electronic table tennis game has ...

A game that is easy to learn, but difficult to master. This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into Allan Alcorn, a then-24-year-old engineer, prior to the development of one of ...

As promised, organisers behind Atari's Pong Indie Developer Challenge have revealed the 20 indie developers advancing past the first round. The competition, which kicked off back in March, challenges ...

This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...