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I found this short film on YouTube, and it is a perfect demonstration of just how iconic pong has become.

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Graham1973 (talk) 15:59, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Release date

Why does the infobox say the game was released on 29 November 1972? The article itself only says that they began advertising the game at that point, while no actual release date was provided. Researcher Michael D. Current quotes the WSJ on a December release date. 93.159.251.2 (talk) 10:20, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Geartooth: Please read this section before reverting, thanks. 2A02:908:1019:4820:9820:EBF6:4F54:C327 (talk) 11:19, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Could you perhaps provide a direct reference to the WSJ article in question? Lordtobi (✉) 11:49, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For now, I've directly used the Current source for the December date. Nontheless, it'd be better if we had the WSJ source directly. I fear like this might be difficult to do, as that article is supposedly from 1974. Lordtobi (✉) 11:35, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]