Two lines move on either end of the screen, a pixelated dot volleys between them and a score displays at the top. That's really all there was to Pong – and that was really all it needed to become the ...

And the hot new modern game show coming soon is . . . “Pong?” Yes, “Pong” — the simplest video game ever from 1972, in which two lines bounce a dot back and forth — is in the process of becoming a TV ...

Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29, 1972, and ...

Pong was released in 1972. The video game Pong turns 50 this year. The rules are simple. It’s ping-pong, so you and another person each control a paddle on the screen — hit a ball back and forth and ...

Atari has partnered with veteran unscripted producer Scott Sternberg to develop a game show based on the classic video game “Pong.” The show, “Million Dollar Pong,” will be produced by Scott Sternberg ...

You might have witnessed today’s game of Pong writ large on the side of a building in Philadelphia. But hacking the building’s stock lighting system would take Frank Lee five long years of technical ...

Pong steps out from the screen and into a coffee table with a playable mechanical version of the famous arcade game. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...