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 ...

Landmark historical relics don't usually slip past at public auction unnoticed, but as we demonstrated in this recent article, it does happen. Now three priceless relics from gaming antiquity are ...

Allan Alcorn was just 24 when he designed the world's first popular videogame in 1972. Fresh out of college and working for the then unknown video company Atari - as its second employee - his first ...

Is the game Pong classified as a computer game or not? I got into an argument with a freind and couldn't decide if it was closer to being a console or a personal computer game.

MARTINEZ: That's right - the original table tennis arcade game from the 1970s. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that this novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.

Tesla boss Elon Musk responded to a Twitter post about the popular video game "Pong" which sparked curiosity among readers. The tech billionaire questioned the implication of the 3D world to the ...