Pong

Pong is one of the first video games. The game can with two people or only be played against an electronic opponent. It was released as arcade game by Atari in 1972. In 1975, a home consoleversion that could be played by the console to the TV to connect.

Pong is based on table tennis. The name is derived from ping pong Pong . The game works with two bats and a ball and two walls on the side. The objective of the game is that the ball ends up behind the paddle of the opponent.

Because a computer still was too expensive to use for video games was the first generation of video games from discrete electronics. After developing the games on the University computers the design was translated into a number of discrete components that could produce an analog television signal. The term "computer game" is for the first generation of video games actually not yet applicable. Pong was in fact a computer program translated to a non customizable printed circuit board with components that are only could play pong.

In 1978 brought Atari Breakout from the game, that was based on Pong .