If you think the PS5 is expensive, get a load of Atari’s “Home Pong” prototype. The original 1975, hand-carved wood mock-up of the Pong system recently sold for $270,910 at auction ...

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 ...

Pong was released by Atari 50 years ago. Two moving lines, a dot that volleys between them and a score display at the top - that's really all there was to the game Pong. (SOUNDBITE OF PONG SOUND ...

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.

That small start-up called Atari — which launched on June 27, 1972 — ended up changing the world: first with a rudimentary table tennis game called Pong and later a culture-shifting home console.

What was the first-ever video game? Who invented it and when? Here's an inside look at video game history from Atari's "Pong" to the more advanced consoles of today. The American Physics ...

The success of that game gave the company the capital to develop its breakout hit "Pong" but a lack of business savvy almost sunk Atari before it got off the ground; the company failed to secure ...

The Atari Mini Pong Jr will be available to buy online in time for the 2020 holidays, although the company hasn’t yet specified the exact date or how much it’ll cost. Check out the overly ...

This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into 24-year-old engineer Allan Alcorn, prior to their development of one of the most recognizable games of all time, "Pong," 50 years ago.

This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into 24-year-old engineer Allan Alcorn, prior to their development of one of the most recognizable games of all time, "Pong," 50 years ago. ...