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Pong and the birth of computer games

Witness History

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What Makes Pong So Successful?

By 19 75, pong was one of the most sought after presents for christmas. Its appeal had even crossed the atlantic. The average woman could beat the average man playing pong. Once you played and won or lost, you almost had to play again. And then probably the third thing is that people had never seen anything that they could play that was that crisp and that controllable and that understandable.

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