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79 Pong debuted on this day in 1972 — Atari's pioneering CPU-less video arcade game’s creation was the result of an engineer training exercise

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Tom's Hardware · 11/29/2025 06:00 EDT

Pong debuted on this day in 1972 — Atari's pioneering CPU-less video arcade game’s creation was the result of an engineer training exercise

The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972.

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