![]() ![]() 1973: The Pong-In-A-Barrel half- barrel-shaped cocktail arcade machine is released.1972/1973: Atari, Inc.'s Barrel Pong upright arcade cabinet (shaped like a table with a barrel on, in which the monitor is) is released by Hunter Electronics Pty.: The Pong upright arcade cabinet is released. ![]() Each time the ball (which could bounce only on the two rackets or on the two horizontal borders of the screen) exited the screen on one of its two sides (even if it bounced on that side's defender's racket), the player on the other side gained a point, and the first player to gain eleven (or fifteen, depending on the settings ) points won the one- quarter-costing virtual match. It consisted of a rough table tennis simulator, possibly inspired by 1958's Tennis for Two (but more likely by the Magnavox Odyssey, bringing the similarities in court), with two white vertical one-dimensionally-moveable dashes symbolizing two rackets controlled by as many users via one potentiometer paddle each and a white, two-dimensionally-moving, dot symbolizing the ball. It was manufactured by "Atari Corporation Syzygy Engineered" (as the publicity flyer reads ) and first released in 1972. Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, being notorious for its significance in video game history. Pong became a pop culture icon, while Breakout started a whole clone video game genre Their chronology is listed below: They were, respectively, a table tennis (ping-pong, from which the name) simulator and a wall-breaking simulator, released the former in 1972 and the latter in 1976. Atari, Inc.'s Pong and Breakout are two of the most significant arcade video games in History.
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