Saturday, November 29, 2014

Happy birthday, video games!

On this day in 1972, Atari announced the release of Pong.



Now video games make more money than Hollywood.

4 comments:

2cents said...

Yeah. But pong was more entertaining than any of the movies Hollywood puts out today.

Borepatch said...

Heh. No joke.

ASM826 said...

And Pong would leave a permanent burn-in on the screen of the TV you played it on. That white was pure white and stationary, the phosphor grid didn't stand a chance.

kx59 said...

Dad bought us the Omni system home video game I think it was called...so long ago I've forgotten the year. It had one game - pong, and boy did we play the crap outta that.