Breakout was like a one-person Pong game. A paddle appeared at the bottom of the screen. At the top were rows of bricks. A ball was hit with the paddle, which would then hit a brick in the wall.

But pushing it squarely into impulse purchase territory is the watch’s ability to play Centipede, Pong, Super Breakout, and ...

The genesis of Breakout came in the wake of the success of 1972‘s Pong, one of the very earliest mass-produced arcade videogames.A simplified, digital version of table tennis, Pong had glaring ...

If you've been around video games for any length of time, chances are you have heard of or maybe have even played the original Breakout. While merely a more refined version of Pong, the addictive ...

In the history of video gaming, Atari's Breakout is arguably second only to Pong - the Atari title that preceded and influenced it. And for such a basic game, the story of its creation is ...

Concrete Pong, a console made by Guus Oosterban by insulating a Pong clone console’s guts into plastic, dropping it into a box, and pouring concrete all over it.[Guus Oosterbaan via Make] ...

This comes loaded with multiple variants of the Pong game, including Pong Doubles and Pong Sports, in addition to Warlords, Super Breakout and Tempest. This unit as the name suggests allows for ...

Jason Kottke recently said he could spend all day watching Koen van Gilst’s Pong Wars, a JavaScript-based mashup of Pong and Breakout (designed by Steve Wozniak with help from Steve Jobs) that feels ...

Eventually, all of one's childhood idols fall on hard times. Now, it's Pong. Atari's U.S. subsidiary, the creator of Pong, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, slain by a flock of Angry ...

The Atari 2600 My Play Watch is a fitness tracker with four playable retro games: Pong, Missile Command, Super Breakout, and Centipede. Retro gaming on your wrist. Skip to main content.