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by Tim Sweezy — Friday, March 15, 2024, 10:42 AM EDT An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a ...

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Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry by cofounding Atari Inc. and helping to create the hit console game "Pong," died May 26 at his home ...

If you’ve been miss the heart-pounding action from retro video games like Pong, Centipede and Astroids, you’re going to love this huge Amazon deal. Amazon has slashed the price on the Atari ...

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor ...

Atari is distancing itself from the PONG cryptocurrency, accusing the token of using its trademarked property without permission. Atari is distancing itself from a cryptocurrency whose name could ...

Atari has just acquired another studio, this time one that specializes in emulating retro video games.

This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...

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. Two moving lines, a dot that volleys ...

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 EFFECTS) SHAPIRO: And that was all it needed ...