Developer : Atari
Genre : Ball and paddle games
Graphics : 1-bit Graphics
Raster Bar Graphics
Audio : Synthesized Sound
Other Tags : Discrete Circuit Games
DICE Emulator
Emulated in : Atari 50 (2022 PS5)
Achievements : retroachievements.orgnot completed.
🍒 Photo from Musée Mécanique in San Fransisco 2024
Log entries
- Gamescom 2019 had a giant retro area with rows and rows of arcade games, old consoles, computers, and pinball machines. I found the oldest game, seemingly the original arcade hardware, mounted in a plexiglass box, so you could see everything. I played against a couple of kids who gave me their best, but still lost to someone who spent a considerable amount of time thinking about Breakout and Arkanoid since the 70's.
Musée Mécanique: I played a few games with Malu. I love how direct the paddle controller feels.
I found the whole schematic for Pong, it's beautifully small.
As far as I understand, the beep frequencies of 246 and 491 Hz are generated directly from the video sync. 1
Full Pong schematic from hardware manual
Here's the original schematic by Allan Alcorn, sold at an auction for $25,000: 2
Allan Alcorn's original Pong schematics
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Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC's
Dr. Hugo R. Holden 2013
Pong Story ↩ -
Allan Alcorn: Original Pong Schematics (c. 1972)
RR Auction ↩
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2019-08-22
2024-03-23
2025-02-08