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The Atari 2600 My Play Watch is a fitness tracker with four playable retro games: Pong, Missile Command, Super Breakout, and Centipede.
Atari owns and/or manages a portfolio of more than 200 unique games and franchises, including world-renowned brands like Asteroids®, Centipede®, Missile Command®, Pong®, and RollerCoaster ...
Also up for auction is a handful of other iconic Atari video games, such as a Pong arcade video game, and a Space Race arcade video game.
A simple game of ping-pong made video games into a force to be reckoned with in 1972.
Atari quickly shifted its focus to developing new games, and the company hired Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as part of that effort before the pair left to found Apple.
Atari is calling Qomp 2 an “artful reimagining of Pong.” And I’d agree. In a new trailer released on August 29, we can see the strange sequel in action, with Pong’ s iconic ball escaping ...
I wasn't expecting to get a press release about a sequel to Pong in the year two thousand and twenty-three, but not all surprises are bad ones - Qomp2 looks weirdly awesome. Atari is billing Qomp2 ...
Atari and Plaion are teaming up to release the 2600+ home retro console that plays actual Atari cartridges.
The unlikely story of Atari's Pong, which was invented in the Bay Area 50 years ago and launched the $200 billion video game industry.
Pong is so easy you might say anyone could master it. And Pong’s newest players? A group of lab-grown brain cells.
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.