{"id":143,"date":"2015-03-02T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/pong\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:31:20","slug":"pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/pong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in 1972 Atari released the Pong game to the world. Pong was probably the first video game i ever saw. Closely followed by Old Boot Hill which was heavily advanced compared to pong. Pong is a simple 2 dimensional tennis sports game. With my home version it came with 2 further games, Squash where it was tennis against the wall and one player squash in effect bat and ball on your own if you had no mates!<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"attachment_1847\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1847\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1847\" title=\"pong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong.jpg\" alt=\"1972 Atari released Pong to the world\" width=\"700\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1972 Atari released Pong to the world<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the main game Pong, its aim is to defeat an opponent or the computer by earning a higher score. I think mine was the first to 21. Now kids, Pong quickly became a success and is the first commercially successful video game, which led to the start of the video game industry and therefore you have Pong to thank for your PS3&#8217;s and Wii&#8217;s etc<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter Atari grew on the success by producing sequels in the years following the original release: Pong Doubles, Super Pong, Quadrapong, and Pin-Pong, all with new game play elements. Thus the home video game industry was now well and truly established.<\/p>\n<p>more details on\u00a0<a title=\"Pong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/categories\/arcade\/ag1106.htm\">Pong Arcade game<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/pong\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"1972 Atari released Pong to the world\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pong.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Back in 1972 Atari released the Pong game to the world. Pong was probably the first video game i ever saw. Closely followed by Old Boot Hill which was heavily advanced compared to pong. Pong is a simple 2 dimensional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/pong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade","tag-53"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pong Game<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1972 Atari released the Pong game to the world - one of the first Arcade video games for the home. 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