MARTINEZ: That's right - the original table tennis arcade game from the 1970s. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that this novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.

Many of you have probably heard of ‘Pong’, a legendary video game that was released back in 1972. Well, Pong is now half a century old, as it celebrated its 50th birthday on November 29. ‘Pong’ game ...

Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...

Is the game Pong classified as a computer game or not? I got into an argument with a freind and couldn't decide if it was closer to being a console or a personal computer game.

Excerpted from The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. Out now from Simon & Schuster. Innovation requires having at least three ...

Tesla boss Elon Musk responded to a Twitter post about the popular video game "Pong" which sparked curiosity among readers. The tech billionaire questioned the implication of the 3D world to the ...

Samuel “Ted” Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game “Pong,” died May 26 at his home ...

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It doesn’t happen often that we report on new vacuum tube based computer designs. Today however, we’re pleased to introduce to you the Fast Reliable Electronic Digital Dot Computer, or Fred.Computer ...