That Time The First Pong Machine Broke, Because It Made Too Much Money (Game Bugs And Features)
6,614Pong is the most iconic game to have been created near 5 decades ago and it's an amusing story of how it was invented.
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Original Article:
http://www.factfiend.com/time-pong-machine-broke-made-much-money/
Sources:
https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/strange-eating-habits-steve-jobs-119434
https://venturebeat.com/2011/01/12/atari-co-founder-al-alcorn-talks-about-creating-pong-and-modern-game-industry/
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/arcade/andycapppong.html
https://www.technologyreview.com/2000/03/01/236409/the-sweet-pong-of-success/
https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui00davi/page/2/mode/2up
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/in-the-beginning-there-was-the-game-and-the-game-was-pong-20121201-2ao4l.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Alcorn#:~:text=Alcorn%20was%20the%20person%20who,job%20at%20Atari%20in%201974.
https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/why-is-apple-called-apple-3783504/#:~:text=In%20Walter%20Isaacson's%20biography%2C%20Jobs,the%20airport%20along%20Highway%2085.
https://www.cracked.com/article_19262_6-glitches-that-accidentally-invented-modern-gaming.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_(video_game)#:~:text=Some%20of%20the%20major%20gameplay,strikes%20in%20Devil%20May%20Cry.
Images:
Pong,
Chris Rand, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3., via Wikimedia Commons
Allan Alcorn,
Alex Handy, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Steve Jobs,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP_(cropped_2).jpg#file
Nolan Bushnell,
Tech Cocktail, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Atari,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation
Magnavox Odyssey,Evan-Amos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Space Invaders,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Invaders_flyer,_1978.jpg
Grand Theft Auto,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GTA_-_Box_Front.jpg
Driver 1 & 2,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infogrames-Driver-PS/dp/B00004SQO1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_2
Street Fighter,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SF2_JPN_flyer.jpg
Devil May Cry,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devil-May-Cry-4-PS3/dp/B000E6DYXK
Onimusha: Warlords,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onimusha:_Warlords
Videos:
Pong (1972), Gameplay by andys-arcade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiShX2pTz9A
Driver 2 (2000), Gameplay by Adamus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGje_wJmL0&t=1545s
Super Street Fighter II (1993), Gameplay by K' Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9IRDlBz1vI
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (2005), Gameplay by Nelo47Angelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cr0QTBfP6Q
Music:
"Two Finger Johnny" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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