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 ...

by Tim Sweezy — Friday, March 15, 2024, 10:42 AM EDT An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a ...

As the pandemic raged in 2020, a revolution played out in the entertainment world. In that year, video game revenue grew 20% to a whopping $179.7 billion — pulling in more money than global movies and ...

Two moving lines, a dot that volleys between them and a score display at the top - that's really all there was to the game Pong. (SOUNDBITE OF PONG SOUND EFFECTS) SHAPIRO: And that was all it needed ...

Exactly 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – a fact that would eventually lead to two decades of ...

A game that is easy to learn, but difficult to master. This was the concept Atari founder Nolan Bushnell instilled into Allan Alcorn, a then-24-year-old engineer, prior to the development of one of ...

Anyone in Massachusetts who grew up going to arcades remembers playing Atari games, as well playing the Atari video game console. The company is celebrating 50 years of business and is re-launching a ...

Landmark historical relics don't usually slip past at public auction unnoticed, but as we demonstrated in this recent article, it does happen. Now three priceless relics from gaming antiquity are ...

If you’ve been miss the heart-pounding action from retro video games like Pong, Centipede and Astroids, you’re going to love this huge Amazon deal. Amazon has slashed the price on the Atari ...

Atari is distancing itself from the PONG cryptocurrency, accusing the token of using its trademarked property without permission. Atari is distancing itself from a cryptocurrency whose name could ...

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 ...