World Outside Welcoming Pong's Phenomenal Game In Today's History, November 29, 1972

Portrait of the game Arkade Pong and Computer Space. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA History today, 51 years ago, November 29, 1972, the pioneer of the video game industry (video game), Atari released the legendary game Pong in the United States (US). A video game that resembles a table tennis game (ping pong) with a simple graphics was greeted with a fanfare.

Previously, the engineering industry (coin games) was booming around the world in the 1970s. This growth made game cadets appear. Atari is also one of the competing game producers.

Idealism is the key to important decisions that affect life. that's what Ted Dabney upholds. He is one of the magnets of the world's gaming universe. At first Ted was very interested in the computer world. He began to learn all kinds of developments in the computer world.

The job made him make a lot of money. However, Ted did not necessarily be complacent. He wants to be remembered as a big figure in an industry. He perpetuates his dream as a pioneer in the world video game industry.

The trip led him to meet Nolan Bushnell. The two had the same dream. they also devoted themselves to the gaming industry and formed a company called Syzygy in 1971.

They started working on an archkade game called Computer Space. The goal is clear. Computer Space wants it to be brought into an archkade search game. Far from fire. The age of Computer Space is not as long as Syzygy whose name has been claimed by another party.

Both were forced to form a new company called Atari in 1972. Atari is considered capable of bringing glory to the world of games. Moreover, Atari's name was presented from a typical Japanese game, Go. Atari is also believed to have the meaning of achieving the target.

Atari became a forum for Ted and Bushnell to be creative. They began to plan the creation of simple games but were loved by many people.

Mr Dabney, known as Ted, brought the army game into the world with Atari. A startup company he developed with Busnell. The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in early 1972.

At the time of the computer which at that time was the main option of workers to make games each could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ted refused at all. Instead he played in the workshop he founded in his daughter's bedroom and used fake wood and mahonie panels to make Atari's first console, "explained Nellie Bowles in her article on The New York Times page entitled Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Dies at 81(2018).

Atari's presence was greeted with a commotion. Moreover, Atari started recruiting competent employees. Al Alcorn, one of them. Al Alcorn felt challenged to make the first video game for Atari. He also worked with Ted to present a simple, but captivating game.

The results were brilliant. Phenomenal video game Pong was born. The game was then introduced to the public audience for the first time in Sunnyvale, California, USA, on November 29, 1972. Pong's presence was able to win millions of hearts of video game fans around the world.

Pong's arcade game, which resembles the ping pong game, is so popular throughout the country. Atari also made a fortune. Whoever has the game of LAWkade Pong from cafes to minimarkets is predicted to make a big profit. That narrative made Pong one of the favorite games that was a big success.

The presence of Pong's game quickly reached gold. Alcorn was called to repair the first machine in a matter of days. Pong was immediately popular. Atari also began to improve the shape of the archkade game. The repair includes where coins are replaced with larger spaces, so that more coins can be collected.

At first, Atari had difficulty producing arcade machines. Everything was because Atari had limited finances. This problem became Atari's challenge at the beginning of her glory in releasing the legendary game Pong. The hard work brought results. Sales increased, and Pong was officially released by Atari in November 1972," said Kyle McNeill in his writing on The Guardian page entitled "No One Had Seen Anything Like It": How Video Game Pong Changed the World (2022).