To acclimate Alcorn to creating games, Bushnell gave him a project secretly meant to be a warm-up exercise. However, Bushnell had concerns that it might be too complicated for Alcorn's first game. Bushnell had originally planned to develop a driving video game, influenced by Chicago Coin's Speedway (1969) which at the time was the biggest-selling electro-mechanical game at his amusement arcade. Prior to working at Atari, Alcorn had no experience with video games. Soon after the founding, Bushnell hired Allan Alcorn because of his experience with electrical engineering and computer science Bushnell and Dabney also had previously worked with him at Ampex. The first contract was with Bally Manufacturing Corporation for a driving game. After producing Computer Space, Bushnell decided to form a company to produce more games by licensing ideas to other companies. Pong was the first game developed by Atari. Atari engineer Allan Alcorn designed and built Pong as a training exercise. The goal is for each player to reach eleven points before the opponent points are earned when one fails to return the ball to the other. Players use the paddles to hit a ball back and forth. They can compete against another player controlling a second paddle on the opposing side. The player controls an in-game paddle by moving it vertically across the left or right side of the screen. Pong is a two-dimensional sports game that simulates table tennis. The score is displayed at the top of the screen. Gameplay The two paddles return the ball back and forth. Pong is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., due to its cultural impact.
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The game was remade on numerous home and portable platforms following its release.
The home version was also a commercial success and led to numerous clones. During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a home version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores. Eventually, Atari's competitors released new types of video games that deviated from Pong's original format to varying degrees, and this, in turn, led Atari to encourage its staff to move beyond Pong and produce more innovative games themselves.Ītari released several sequels to Pong that built upon the original's gameplay by adding new features. Soon after its release, several companies began producing games that closely mimicked its gameplay. Pong was the first commercially successful video game, and it helped to establish the video game industry along with the Magnavox Odyssey. In response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement. Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console. It was one of the earliest arcade video games it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game. from Magnavox Co., Commercial Wireless and Development Co.Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.Īll listed radios etc. Here you find 1058 models, 527 with images and 760 with schematics for wireless sets etc. See "Data change" for further contributors. SAMS (Set 388 Production Changes Bulletin 201 dated 2-58) Externally it was imitated by Ful-Tone TR-601 and several other brands therein reported. It was produced also with at least two additional Magnavox brands: Spartan and Sentinel. Genuine leather case with bottom compartment for earphone. The chassis CR729CA was also produced and a picture is available.Īn article about the Magnavox AM-2 is published in Italian in Antique Radio Magazine n. It is made for a power supply of a 4 volts mercury battery "Eveready E233". The AM-2 was coming in three colors: "Cabinet back" in Red, Ivory or Black. There is a note: "Chassis number was not stamped on initial production chassis. SAMS says that chassis CR729BA should not have the following components: R3, R6, C10, C17. and the Transistor Book shows a folder with chassis CR729AA and CR729BA. The Photofact Annual Index indicates for this model Magnavox "AM-2 all transistor" set 342, folder 9.
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