15 Jun
1997
15 Jun
'97
10:14 p.m.
e.tedeschi wrote:
Doeas anybody have a photograph of "PONG" the first video game ever? Or
where I can find one? I have never seen it and I don't know how it looks
like so I will not be able to recognize it if I ever bump into one.
I don't know if I have any of the Pong advertisements or not, but I most
likely have something close. It is pretty easy to recognize as the
cabinet was about 27" or so wide, about 30" deep, and stood somewhere
around 6 feet high. It had a black and white monitor. Of course, the
"Pong" on the marquee is kind of a giveaway :). The front panel had two
knobs, one for each player, but I don't recall if there were push
buttons labeled "One Player", "Two Player" and "Start"
although I
*think* they did. If you aren't aware, it was manufactured by Atari
about 1972 (don't recall the exact date.) A good place to ask would be
rec.collecting.video.arcade (or the name is something like that.)