Pong (video game)

Pong
Developer	Atari
Publisher	Atari Sears (Tele-Games Pong console) AtGames (Flashback) Blaze Entertainment (Evercade)
Distributor
Platforms	Arcade, Atari Flashback 2/2+, (Atari 2600), dedicated console, Evercade, Windows
Released	Arcade NA: November 29, 1972 Home console NA (Sears): 1975 NA (Atari): 1976 Flashback 2 NA: November 1, 2005 Flashback 2+ NA: 2010 Windows NA (Taco Bell): March 2, 2010 WW (Atari Vault): March 24, 2016 Linux (Atari Vault) NA: May 26, 2016 macOS (Atari Vault) NA: March 16, 2017 Evercade (Atari Arcade 1) EU: November 3, 2021
Added to Museum	Windows (Taco Bell): March 12, 2018 Flashback 2+: May 10, 2019 Linux, Mac, Win (Vault): December 4, 2019

Pong is a ball-and-paddle video game developed by Allan Alcorn and released by Atari for the arcade market in 1972.

Legacy

Pong was a very influential game, spawning an entire genre of video games and countless clones, including many clones by Atari themselves.

Versions

Atari made many clones of Pong, but only released faithful adaptations of the original a few times. A home console version was released by Sears called Tele-Games Pong for Christmas 1975, and Atari re-released the unit under their own brand in 1976.

A port for the Atari 2600 was released for the Atari Flashback 2 dedicated console in 2005 and the Atari Flashback 2+ in 2010.

Legacy Engineering developed a faithful port for Windows for Atari, S.A. that was distributed by Taco Bell in 2010.