Atari Corporation

…another Ampex alumnus, founded the Atari Corporation. Bushnell asked Alcorn to design a simple game based on Ping-Pong, explaining by way of inspiration that Atari had received a contract to make it. While there was in fact no such contract, Alcorn was adept at television electronics and produced a simple…

Bushnell and Dabney later founded Atari Inc., from which they released the first commercially successful arcade game, Pong (1972), an electronic sports game based on table tennis (Ping-Pong).

…in the United States by Atari Inc., was the first racing game to become a hit in arcades. The single-player game featured Formula 1 racing cars, 8-bit colour graphics, the race course used at Japan’s Fuji Speedway, and competition with several computer-controlled cars. The game has been ported to various…

…by the American game manufacturer Atari, Inc. One of the earliest video games, Pong became wildly popular and helped launch the video game industry. The original Pong consisted of two paddles that players used to volley a small ball back and forth across a screen.