The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.

Popular home personal computer company was established by Utahn Nolan Bushnell on this date in 1972.

The man who designed Pong was 24 years old when he installed the first arcade version of the video game at a bar in Sunnyvale in 1972. Allan Alcorn returned to the same spot on June 10 after the ...

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 ...