Video game consoles are pretty old now ... a more complex nature was a market waiting to be built. It was with Pong in 1972, ...

For fans of old-school games, it's kind of like Coke acquiring Pepsi: Atari, which produced one of the first hit home game consoles, announced a deal to acquire the brand of long-time rival ...

This was the first ever video game console released in 1972. The Odyssey could only display ... It predates the more famous and more successful Atari Pong, and Magnavox sued Pong for copyright ...

Now widely regarded as the first video game to achieve serious commercial success, Atari’s 1972 Pong allowed two people ... But it was the advent of home consoles such as the Atari 2600 and ...