Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...

The 1970s were a formative decade for video games. This was when arcade games like Pong and Space Invaders were all the vogue. Lest it be forgotten, video game consoles were first popularized in the ...

Allan Alcorn was desperate when he hired a young college dropout named Steve Jobs. Atari, the fledgling computer games company he worked for, was scrambling to staff up after the sudden success of its ...

Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry by cofounding Atari Inc. and helping to create the hit console game "Pong," died May 26 at his home ...

Guus Oosterbaan’s dedicated Pong console, encased in cement, as seen on the creator’s blog, via Make and Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/the-missing-link-between ...

An Atari Super Pong retro games console at the 2014 Gamescom gaming trade fair on August 14, 2014 in Cologne, Germany. (Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images) Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup ...