Soon after its release, several companies began producing games that closely mimicked its gameplay. Pong was the first commercially successful video game, and it helped to establish the video game industry along with the Magnavox Odyssey. In response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement. Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console. ![]() It was one of the earliest arcade video games it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game. ![]() Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972.
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