Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29, 1972, and ...

Is the game Pong classified as a computer game or not? I got into an argument with a freind and couldn't decide if it was closer to being a console or a personal computer game. Its life began on the ...

In November 1971, a chrome-flecked cabinet shaped like something out of a Jetsons fever dream started eating quarters in a bowling alley near Sunnyvale, California. It wasn’t Pong. Pong didn’t exist ...

I think it’d be more fun if the computer had to actuate a joystick, but [ashish]s visual based computer pong player is still pretty sweet. He’s capturing the game state with his webcam, and the ...