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

Pong, while not the first videogame, was the first coin-op arcade game and the first mainstream videogame that was available to almost everyone. Pong was the impetus for the development of the ...

Meanwhile, Pong itself had been modeled upon the earlier Magnavox Odyssey (1972), the first home video game console, which played a similar but more primitive game of video ping pong.

Pong was introduced the same year by an obscure new company, Atari. Its creator, Nolan Bushnell, introduced the system as a coin-operated arcade game and placed the first machine at Andy Capp’s ...

Children of Pong: The Forgotten Early Atari Consoles Before Atari hit it big with the 2600, these consoles kept the firm's home business alive. By Benj Edwards 17 Apr 2017, 6:01 a.m.