PONG

[KingOfKYA]

does it qualify

Just Kidding
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[Yoshi648]

The original Pong units? Yes those classics qualify as a system.

[Cat333Pokémon]

Yeah. I've played one only once, yet I can't remember where.
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[AngrytigerP]

Pong... sucks.
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[Yoshi648]

Originally Posted by AngrytigerP

Pong... sucks.

Then don't play any videogames. Pong started videogames.

[AngrytigerP]

Pong was a hastily cobbled-together demonstration of an analog computer running a program on an oscilloscope in 1958.

A device called the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device was patented in the United States by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948. It described using eight vacuum tubes to simulate a missile firing at a target and contains knobs to adjust the curve and speed of the missile. Because computer graphics could not be drawn electronically at the time, small targets were drawn on a simple overlay and placed on the screen.

In February 1951, Christopher Strachey tried to run a draughts programme he had written for the NPL Pilot ACE. The program exceeded the memory capacity of the machine and by October, Strachey had recoded his program for a machine at Manchester with a larger memory capacity.

OXO, a graphical version of tic-tac-toe, was created by A.S. Douglas in 1952 at the University of Cambridge, in order to demonstrate his thesis on human-computer interaction. It was developed on the EDSAC computer, which uses a cathode ray tube displaying memory contents as a visual display. The player competes against the computer (which incorporates basic Artificial Intelligence) using a rotary dial.

All predate even the first iteration of Pong, Tennis for Two.
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[KingOfKYA]

Ok POng Was the First Game System Available To the masses not just to some scientiest or programer
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[Cat333Pokémon]

PONG is simple:

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[rhythm2beat]

Pong was a hastily cobbled-together demonstration of an analog computer running a program on an oscilloscope in 1958.

A device called the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device was patented in the United States by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948. It described using eight vacuum tubes to simulate a missile firing at a target and contains knobs to adjust the curve and speed of the missile. Because computer graphics could not be drawn electronically at the time, small targets were drawn on a simple overlay and placed on the screen.

In February 1951, Christopher Strachey tried to run a draughts programme he had written for the NPL Pilot ACE. The program exceeded the memory capacity of the machine and by October, Strachey had recoded his program for a machine at Manchester with a larger memory capacity.

OXO, a graphical version of tic-tac-toe, was created by A.S. Douglas in 1952 at the University of Cambridge, in order to demonstrate his thesis on human-computer interaction. It was developed on the EDSAC computer, which uses a cathode ray tube displaying memory contents as a visual display. The player competes against the computer (which incorporates basic Artificial Intelligence) using a rotary dial.

Pong is still the original,and very fun to play, and by the way, was it hard to copy that from Wikipedia?
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[AngrytigerP]

No, it wasn't. And the information's the important thing, not the source.
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[rhythm2beat]

Name something that came before Pong that was significantly better Dr. Wiki.
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[Cat333Pokémon]

Originally Posted by rhythm2beat

Name something that came before Pong that was significantly better Dr. Wiki.

Television!

Hey, you didn't say it had to be a video game.
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[rhythm2beat]

Okay Smarty -.-" it has to be a Video Game, a Video Game that was actually very popular at the time.
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[AngrytigerP]

Unleashing the power of Wikipedia once more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Space


The original comment was that Pong was the first widely distributed arcade machine. It wasn't.
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[rhythm2beat]

Fine you got me this time Wiki. But Pong wasn't crap, it was still pretty fun.
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[KingOfKYA]

you win it wasent first
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[rhythm2beat]

Nevermind, I win, take that, Wiki!
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[SpaceMan++]

I played the JavaScript version:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex12/phong2.htm

[rhythm2beat]

I like that website, it has a lot of fun and classic games.

[Cat333Pokémon]

AtariAge has lots of classic Atari games.

[Yoshi648]

Originally Posted by cat333pokemon

AtariAge has lots of classic Atari games.

AtariAge is freaken awesome for anything Atari related.

[rhythm2beat]

Hmm.. I love Atari, especially the 2600... Maybe that's why I own one?

[Blues]

Originally Posted by SpaceMan++

I played the JavaScript version:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex12/phong2.htm

That literally gave me chronic diarrhea. Trying to hit the starting serve gave me seizures.

But normal Pong is awesome.