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Latest revision as of 00:01, 30 November 2024

Good articlePong has been listed as one of the Video games good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 12, 2009Good article nomineeListed
March 16, 2009WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
On this day...Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on November 29, 2008, November 29, 2012, November 29, 2014, November 29, 2018, November 29, 2020, November 29, 2023, and November 29, 2024.
Current status: Good article

Pong's nickname

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I heard this game is the granddaddy of video games.--Nate-Dawg921 (talk) 05:12, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've not heard this nickname before. It was not the first video game, but it was the first arcade and home console game to take off with the general public.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:09, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The creation of Pong

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Pong was created by a group of Students & Teachers at Texas State University in 1971...I played the game with my brother on a console that had t sides I was on one side & my brother was on the other side...This was the Summer of 1971 or 1972..According to my memory it was Summer of 1972 & Pong was still being perfected by the students who were working on it,two of them being my Aunt & Uncle Janice & Ray Gay.... 2600:6C55:7C00:1282:E887:D8BA:59C3:47CE (talk) 14:53, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]