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On June 27, 1972 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari in Sunnyvale, California, and hired Allan Alcorn to design the table tennis (ping-pong) game “ PONG .”. Pong was the first commercially successful video game (videogame). Alcorn produced the prototype, and in September 1972 Bushnell and Alcorn placed the first prototype of the ...
Single-player, multiplayer. Pong is a table tennis –themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan ...
Mar 11, 2008 · Al Alcorn is one of the most important figures from the earliest days of the videogame industry. Not only was he there at the birth of Atari, alongside Nolan Bushnell, but he was the engineer who ...
Nov 29, 2022 · The first engineer to join the team was Allan Alcorn, a University of California graduate who had “never played a video game before”, according to Professor Allison Marsh, writing at IEEE ...
Allan Alcorn begins the oral history by discussing his early family life and education prior to recounting his job at AMPEX and meeting Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. He follows with the establishment of Syzygy, Atari, and the development of Pong. Alcorn’s narrative describes
Dec 6, 2022 · That's really all there was to Pong – and that was really all it needed to become the first widely played commercial video game. 50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. To mark the anniversary, Atari co-founder and Pong designer Allan Alcorn spoke with NPR about the game's development, its success and its connection ...
May 8, 2024 · Allan Alcorn is a pioneering figure in the video game industry, renowned for creating Pong, the first commercially successful video game. Born in 1948 in San Francisco, Alcorn’s fascination with electronics began early, influenced by a correspondence course in radio and TV repair.
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