Atari released Pong in 1972 and it became the first commercially successful video game in history. There’s a lot of interesting history behind pong, Atari, the birth of video games in the 70s.
Some fun resources include:
- The Golden Age Arcade Historian
- Once Upon Atari documentary series
The original yellow arcade cabinet is really special piece. I got mine in 2014 from a craigslist seller in Northern MN where it had lived in dry basement 30 years.
This thing was definitely taken care of and includes the original knobs which are shockingly fragile.
It still has Atari’s original name Syzygy on the control panel.
