Original Atari PONG (1972) arcade machine gameplay video 

In 50 years, people will mock how "old" GTA 5 is. Video Games had to start somewhere. Pong gave birth to the entire industry. It demands respect

Teacher: Are you paying attention? Me: What!?! Yes! My brain:

This looks kind of difficult, actually

You can just feel the gun violence

I remember that if you lined both paddles up vertically perfect they would keep hitting the ball between each other indefinitely. We’d go eat, do chores & come back, the ball would still be going back & forth. Back then, this was thrilling, lol!

This is where it all started.... all those memories,stories,characters,music,fun times all of those started with a ball and two sticks

Those high fidelity sound effects.

Still can't believe that all started with 2 pillars and 1 ball

The ball moves a lot smoother than I imagined. The sound it makes when a player misses a ball is kind of irritating though, if I were to born early enough to play this with my friends we might have beaten the crap out of each other when either side loses. I wonder if this destroys friendships like Bomberman does?

Every year since 2016, Pong is always the last thing I watch during summer vacation before school starts. This is my third year doing it.

I remember playing this for hours and how I was so jealous of the first kid on the block who got it! It was the best thing ever!

Amazing graphics, loving the music, the vibrant colours are superb and dont forget that one of a kind storyline and characters, I would rate 10/10 but there's no Switch version so 9/10.

Our family had a giant woodgrain Pong console. Yes, it was a very long time ago.

I remember when I was a kid, my aunt had an old pong machine and some old console with burger time on it. Those were literally the first two games I’ve played in my life, pong and burger time. And I grew up in the very early 2000s XD

Thanks for having this up here. I remember when the neighbor kid got this for Christmas. You have to see it to understand the raw nature of it.

This game is the reason why I have Sonic Unleashed, No Man's Sky, Portal 2, God of War (2018 and everything before and after), and so much more games. And today, I recreated Pong in Python. I'll see where else I can go afterwards.

When does this game come out?

Ah the days when video games had straight white characters

All the people mocking this game when they wouldn’t have a clue where to even begin in making it with early 70s technology. It was actually a masterpiece.

My intro to Pong was also my first time in a bar (underage at that) while visiting Washington, DC at 15 years old with my Dad. Memorable trip ! Run into two of the Watergate perps at the Mayflower Hotel, got in car accident with the taxi, got called a "whitey", saw that whatchacallit famous museum and ran into a barely visible wire cable that delineated Pennsylvania Ave outside the White House in those days.

Ohhh, this takes me back! My first video game console was a pong device that plugged into the television. It had two dials to turn, one for each player to move the paddle up an down.

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Oh my God.. I remember playing this with my Dad when i was kid.. All my friend are jealous..

When the XBox 360 came out with the improved development in graphics, one of my high school teachers asked if we knew about the dot going back and forth with the two lines. He commented that that was his generation and that the technology has really improved.

My first video game experience as a kid in about 1976. It was fun as you played against a friend sitting there with you. Simple enough to instantly play - like table tennis.

This is a more complex version than most of the modern tutorials for newer engines, actually. Many of those don't take account of where the ball strikes the paddle or the direction it was originally moving in beforehand - they just immediately reverse the ball on the exact same trajectory. This version is more precise.

"Imagination is best game engine" My imagination:

I installed this game on my pc and it blew up because it didn't had the good requirements for this game.Fuck my pc

Wow! These graphics look amazing! When does it come out? I'd love to get my hands on this!

Magical game, and still eminently playable today. Addictive as hell. As a side note, try programming your own version with whatever language. A lot going on behind the curtain.

In 1972 this was considered the 8th miracle of the world. People were amazed, they were going crazy over it.🕹️🏓

This is the first video game I ever played. I have to admit that although it is simple, it does require alot of focus especially when you turn the speed up.

Only 60s kid remember this awesome game of the 70s

Back when Video Games are real games, no dlcs, no microtransactions, no swearing, it's all about games that are for all ages

This is it right here the game that started it all.

I played this game as a kid at my Grandparents house. They had it hooked up to their TV with the turn knob channel changer.

I first saw this in 1975. I had no idea it had already been around for three years.

I remember this from back then. This was considered high tech and cost 200 U.S. dollars ($1,425.00 today) I wanted one so bad but considering I was only 14 at the time I knew there was no way I was getting one.

That is how i started gaming too XD. Nice to see it back after all those years

First computer/console game I ever played back in the early 80s. I never outgrew my love for playing computer games. But now, it's games like MGSV and Far Cry for me :)

video games came along way since 72

I was 5 when this came out and my grandparents had this, they wouldn’t let us kids touch this expensive toy, after the TV sets started burning out tubes they put it away for years, then us teenagers found it and got it going again but by then the Atari was out and that was modern stuff I remember paying 35 bucks for some of the games back in the 70’s. Ahh the memories

Imagine how complicated this was to make at that time, nowadays any decent programmer could make this using C language and SDL2.

No kidding this right hear is the reason why I searched "original pong" and it is written write there in the description - "Notice how the paddles don't reach the top of the screen? This is a 'feature' of the original game". Nicee. Thanks for posting this video!

50 years since this released today.

Still played this 40 years on in computer lessons, it will never grow old.

Great! I remember playing it in the early 70ies on a TV-set. Long, long time ago. And hell - it was exciting. ;-)

quality content, 10/10 wood bang

Some of my first memories early '80s! Been a tech enthusiast ever since... Programmers were always above it ~ notice the left and right fight to stay in the narrative...

time for a remake for the PS5

Le premier jeu vidéo célèbre. On raconte que Nolan Bushnell avait décidé de déposer sa borne en test dans un bar en Californie (à Sunnydale) : le Andy Capp's Tavern. Le premier jour seules quelques personnes testent la machine, mais dès le second jour une queue se forme à l’ouverture du bar pour tester le jeu, et le soir même Al Alcorn est appelé pour une panne de la machine. Arrivé sur place il se rend compte que la panne vient du commutateur de pièce : le carton de lait placé à l’intérieur pour recueillir les pièces débordait à tel point que l’appareil était bloqué ! Un joli démarrage pour les jeux video :)

Very nice, proper discrete logic pong!

I was looking for this, thanks man

Only 1970's kids remember this

We played this for hours. It all started here 🙋‍♂️

My first video game with my first Atari console, back to 1978... I'm fucking old...

This is what a virtual game of tennis looked like 50 years ago; we've come a long way since then.

My last two brain cells while playing Dark Souls:

Happy 50th Anniversary Pong!

WOAH. JUST WOAH. THIS LOOKS BETTER THAN DESTINY 2 ON A GTX 1080 TI AND ULTRA 4K SETTINGS. I NEED TO GET THIS AAAAAA

I just wrote pong in Python! I'm still a child who just studied for half a year! I'm so excited! I salute the world's first video game!🎉🎉🎉

Better than Grand theft auto

Haha good ole pong. I remember growing up the rich kid on the block had this and we would play for hours. Then Atari came out and we were blown away 😂 been gaming ever since. 40+ years!

HD remaster when?

The first major arcade ever.

When they gonna release this on Babbage's Analytical Engine?

ATARI also made Syzygy Computer Space in 1971, too. You used some buttons to move your spaceship around, shooting at two enemy saucers.

You’re not a true gamer if you haven’t played this

This brought back all the memories of anxiety I used to get playing this game.

BEST GAME EVER!

this game was the basis of a few sketches on SNL,, therefore it was one of the only video games not to scare me back in the day.. couldn't play it by myself until '78 though..

#CODKILLER

Seeing this for the first time on an Atari system AT HOME in the early eighties: Unforgettable!

Imagine if fortnite was on this

The catacombs of video game history, ladies and gentlemen.

This is great. i should buy this. And ground my kids from all games but pong when they need it!! XD

Are those from the elon musk statement here?

Anyone have a solution to play this REAL Pong on PC ?

This started everything Without this there would be nothing No Fortnite, no Minecraft, no Among Us or any of the stuff we got today This is one of the most important things in history and without it who knows what could have happened then

Came here because yesterday "Retro Games" launched on Switch and I wanted to compare the two. Pong is actually nameless in the collection so it doesn't seem to be licensed, but they look identical - sweet :) the only difference is that in the collection there's a white bar at the bottom and the top the ball bounces off off.

I'm here after watching The Daily Woo Jan. 31, 2022 video about a 1980's airbnb. Pong, was my 1st experience with home games.

My older brother had this, he is 16 years older, and he and I would play this on our Philips colour TV. Good times...

This was on our TV. Early 80s

I once set it up to have the 'wall' on one side and 'auto paddle' on the other and pretended to be playing on the highest speed when my dad came in...he was very impressed! LOL

"I thought it was pretty cool. Apparently, people thought so too back then. That's why they made a home Pong console, so that people could play Pong at home. And then, there was another one... _and another one..._ AND ANOTHER ONE... _AND ANOTHER ONE..._ *AND ANOTHER ONE... **_AND ANOTHER ONE!!! THERE WAS LIKE NINE MILLION FUCKING PONG CONSOLES!!!_* " - AVGN

The old 8k graphics will never be as good as this, even the new 18k resolution won't be better I suspect.

Friends of mine paid $200 for this when it came out in 1973. My parents paid $10 two years later. Same happened to caculators and all other tech.

No nudity No violence No foul language Just one job: hit the ball predicting its trajectory. A game.

Truly a masterpiece for its time.

I remember everyone called this game "tennis," never once remember it being referred to by its proper name 'Pong.' But calling it tennis was silly because it's essentially air hockey. You can't hit the ball out of bounds in tennis and have it come back into play. My siblings and I had Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids and PacMan. But like all our toys, we grew tired of Atari, when the real Pacman, Ms.Pacman, Centipede, et al were out there waiting to take our quarters. Atari was just a poor stand-in. Good times...

Modern games are too realistic. This is so simple, yet so addictive looking with great sound effects that have stood the test of time. I would rather play this game than anything nowadays. Games today will be forgotten.

Crazy to think that we went from this to games like cyberpunk and red dead redemption 2, damn.

I still have my game from 1978 & was told today (3/10/17) it could be worth a few dollars. It still works & in the original box (minus a hole in the box from the joy stick).

I remember when I played it for the first time in the 80s. It was very cool! Never seen something like that on a TV... you could only watch TV but now also you could play games. That game was very frustrating xD

“WHERE IS THE VIOLENCE!? THE ADVERTISMENTS??!?! THE IN-APP PURCHASES!?!?! THE RAGE QUITTING!?”

YEAH!!! What a wondrous comeback by the Home Team!!! Early on, it looked ugly as the Visitors took a 2-0 lead. The Home Team quickly turned things around to go up 4. But then here came the Visitors!!!! A nip and tuck battle right up until the historic ending!!!!! We have never seen such an epic battle in the history of Sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the fluid controls of the paddles is what made it a success. If they were moved by something like the arrow keys on the keyboard it would have been shit

i just bought on amazon the pong tabletop arcade game from atari....soo cool !

i did a Atari Pong Remake with pygame,and i used your video to record the sounds, like the collision of the ball with the player and with the top and bottom of the screen with audacity,thanks bro.

I can't believe we went from two rectangles hitting a tiny square to a full fledged interactive movie.