Atari Home Pong
Atari Home Pong Series | ||
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Manufacturer | Atari | |
Type | Series of stationary game consoles | |
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Storage media | none (built-in games) | |
Online service | none | |
successor | Atari Video Computer System |
Atari Home Pong is a stationary game console that was manufactured by Atari from 1975 and partially sold by the US retail chain Sears. It was presented in the summer of 1975 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). In cooperation with Sears, 150,000 consoles should be manufactured by the Christmas business. The price was around $ 100.
The successor to the Atari Home Pong consoles was the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS).
Web links
Commons : Atari Pong domestic versions - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- More information at www.pong-story.com
- More information at www.atarimuseum.com
- More information at www.computinghistory.org
- The Atari Home Pong console is 40 years old
Individual evidence
- ^ Pong story: Atari home PONG systems. In: pong-story.com. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c PONG and Atari. In: The Dot Eaters. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (American English).
- ^ A b Marco Rinne: Pong Story: History of a Cult Game. In: chip. October 2, 2006, accessed August 10, 2020 .