Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...

[Photo: Daniel McLeod on Etsy] Video game fanatics will always have a soft spot for the Atari 2600, the console that brought video games to the masses. With the exception of the occasional bout of ...

Today I found out “Pong” was originally meant only as a training exercise for a new gaming developer at Atari, Allan Alcorn, and wasn’t intended to be released as a consumer product. When Alcorn was ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of Pong, one of the earliest arcade video games ever created, Atari has created a modded Xbox 360 which is equipped with an LCD screen and has been custom styled to look ...

Pong, the famed table-tennis arcade game whose mainstream success spawned a burgeoning video game industry celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday. To commemorate the occasion, Atari released Pong ...

Atari SA—the shambling corpse holding company that shares a name with the company that made Pong and the Atari 2600 decades ago—has seen its stock price soar after lending its brand to a couple of ill ...

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 ...