Comments on: M&M’s World Headlines: Feb 3, 2009 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18380 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eric http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18380/comment-page-1#comment-958177 Eric Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:40:42 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18380#comment-958177 Pong was first available in 1972, which makes the game 37 years old and not 40. What Baer did was post a video from 1969 where he played video tennis with a colleague. The problem is, a) it was not named Pong, and b) it didn't have the use of English on the spin based on where on the paddle you hit it, a feature of Pong. Also, c) it wasn't commercially released until 1972 in any form (arcade or home). If we want to say that instead, pongLIKE games are 40 years old, we have to bring up Mr. Higginbotham of Brookhaven Labs who made a ponglike game on an oscilloscope in 1958. See http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468302109.html Pong was first available in 1972, which makes the game 37 years old and not 40. What Baer did was post a video from 1969 where he played video tennis with a colleague. The problem is, a) it was not named Pong, and b) it didn’t have the use of English on the spin based on where on the paddle you hit it, a feature of Pong. Also, c) it wasn’t commercially released until 1972 in any form (arcade or home).

If we want to say that instead, pongLIKE games are 40 years old, we have to bring up Mr. Higginbotham of Brookhaven Labs who made a ponglike game on an oscilloscope in 1958. See http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468302109.html

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