Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test drive to announce on Nov. 29 that they'd be rolling out Pong cabinets for ...

Two lines move on either end of the screen, a pixelated dot volleys between them and a score displays at the top. That's really all there was to Pong – and that was really all it needed to become the ...

While Pong, a game resembling ping pong, is commonly cited as the first video game, the true title belongs to Tennis for Two, created in 1958 by U.S. physicist William Higinbotham.

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 ...

Bit Pong is a digital table tennis game where the table is an enormous ball-sensitive display providing all sorts of pixelated shenanigans. It even folds up to allow solo play. It's described by its ...

Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report August 23 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The researchers ...

Sports video games took a turn for the better in the new millennium, becoming an essential part of the culture in football, ...

Scientists have taught a collection of brain cells living in a dish how to play a version of the arcade game pong. The research could one day give doctors a ‘sandbox’ with which to test treatments for ...