Who remembers Pong?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (187271)
United States
April 5, 2025 3:49pm CST
For sure you have to be of a certain age to remember Pong. It was for all intents and purposes the first video game. It was a simple tennis game. My mom got it for us for Christmas one year when I was 14 or 15 . We hooked it up on a older TV downstairs and it only worked half the time. However, when it worked, it was fun. I remember my younger cousins had Atari game systems that had lots of features, but Pong was pretty limited. Nevertheless we had fun with it when it worked.
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
5 Apr
Oh, I see Inever played with my cousin' s Atari, but we did play with my older cousin's Rock en Sock em Robots
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@Deepizzaguy (108312)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
5 Apr
I vaguely remember the Pong game that was located inside of bowling alleys and penny arcades.
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
5 Apr
I never saw them in a public place, but some did have them at home
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
6 Apr
@Deepizzaguy Well, those old games had to somewhere.
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@Deepizzaguy (108312)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
6 Apr
@snowy22315 I could be wrong that I saw them in penny arcades or bowling alleys since Pong was popular when I was living in Panama and not in Louisiana.
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@Juliaacv (52840)
• Canada
5 Apr
We got a pong game console one year for Christmas.
My uncle took it out of the box when they arrived in the early afternoon, and hooked it up to the one and only television. He played it with some of his children all afternoon long.
the next morning that television wouldn't come on.
My brothers and I were pretty bummed as we did not even get a chance to play it until after my parents had the TV fixed and bought a new second set just for the game alone. By then the 'novelty' of the gift had pretty much been killed.
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
5 Apr
It was kind of sketchy and did not perform well compared to modern video games
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
6 Apr
@Juliaacv Yeah, in the coming years many more.
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@Juliaacv (52840)
• Canada
5 Apr
@snowy22315 It was a start, alot of game consoles and even devices for watching movies came after that in quick succession.
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
6 Apr
@JudyEv They were so primitive to what we have today. Hard to believe it wss only about 30 years ago.
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@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
6 Apr
I remember some early DOS games on computers.
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@JudyEv (350217)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Apr
@snowy22315 It was DOS. I couldn't remember that when I wrote the response.
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@LeaPea2417 (37719)
• Toccoa, Georgia
6 Apr
I have heard of it. Back in the day my parents gave me one of the first video game consoles called Intellevision. I had a blast with it. One of my favorite games was a game called Burger Time where you ran around trying to build hamburgers and trying to escape little creatures who could gobble you up. 
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@RasmaSandra (83686)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Apr
Nope I was never into any of this and I don't remember a Pong,
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@JESSY3236 (20369)
• United States
2h
I wasn't born then. But I have seen videos and articles about it.
@snowy22315 (187271)
• United States
6 Apr
I think it was a kg sensation st the time, but it really wasn't on my radar.I might have been in a no TV node a the time
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