The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.

This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...