While it's an extremely tight competition, the very first arcade cabinet was released in 1971, while the very first home ...

"Home Pong" was one of the first popular at-home video games. It kicked off a boom in the mid-70s, shifting the video game industry from arcade-style systems to at-home consoles. What was the ...

Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's what it was capable of.

[MUSIC PLAYING] "Pong," a video game in which a square is bounced between two rectangles controlled by players, was released on November 29 of 1972, by Atari, only a few days more than 50 years ago.

Video game 'Pong' is turning 50 Atari announced a revolutionary new way to play table tennis on Nov. 29, 1972. Pong became the first wildly popular video game, igniting an industry that boomed ...

First generation: 1972 – 1983 Magnavox. Going all the way back to the origins of home consoles, we are at a point where most games don’t even resemble the experiences we have today.

That's really all there was to Pong – and that was really all it needed to become the first widely played commercial video game. 50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game.

The world's first video game console was made in East Tennessee The Magnavox Odyssey, manufactured in Jefferson City, started the video game revolution in 1972 with its innovative design and concept.

I received my first video game console when I was just 3 years old—a 16-bit Sega Genesis handed down to me by my father. And so this year is especially notable in my book, as it marks the 50th ...

Exactly 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong.It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – a fact that would eventually lead to two decades of ...