Pong was the first commercially successful game developed by Atari. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari to develop the concept of a standalone computer system with a monitor and attaching a coin slot to it to play games on. The duo created a coin-op game inspired by the computer game Spacewar!. This game did not fare well commercially. Soon after the founding, Bushnell hired Allan Alcorn to develop Pong.

In August 1972, Bushnell and Alcorn installed the Pong prototype at a local bar, Andy Capp's Tavern. The game was well received the first night and its popularity continued to grow over the next one and a half weeks. Bushnell then went on a business trip to Chicago to demonstrate Pong to executives at the pinball machine companies Bally and Midway Manufacturing. A few days later, the prototype began exhibiting technical issues and they contacted Alcorn to fix it. Upon inspecting the machine, Alcorn discovered that the problem was due to the coin mechanism overflowing with quarters.

Pong is a two-dimensional sports game that simulates table tennis. The player controls an in-game paddle by moving it vertically across the left or right side of the screen. They can compete against another player controlling a second paddle on the opposing side. Players use the paddles to hit a ball back and forth. The goal is for each player to reach eleven points before the opponent; points are earned when one fails to return the ball to the other.

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