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

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 ...

The game mimics Ping-Pong, hence the name, and appeared first in coin-operated arcade-style form at bars and restaurants. In 1975, Atari introduced an at-home version of the game in the Sears Catalog.