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Post by dANdeLION on Apr 11, 2007 10:33:15 GMT -5
Pong kicks it old school!
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 11, 2007 11:07:41 GMT -5
This is the "Pong" I got as a kid. The example in the picture is a little different than mine but you get the idea. :-)   "Coleco got into the videogame business with the Telstar (which was basically a Pong clone) in 1976. Ralph Baer, the engineer who designed the first-ever home videogame system, helped get Telstar off the ground. The full story is available here. Telstar started out strong, but production problems, a dock strike, and the move towards more flexible systems caused Coleco to eventually lose $22.3 million. This was somewhat offset by sales of hand-held videogames, of which Coleco sold about $20 million worth. -Classic Gaming.com museum |
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Post by prorider514 on Jun 8, 2007 15:06:07 GMT -5
pong? i guess u had to be there  |
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 12, 2007 7:41:03 GMT -5
pong? i guess u had to be there I suppose you are right. When you don't have anything to compare it to it was pretty awesome but by today's standards it pretty lame. |
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Post by Cad Zombie on Jun 23, 2007 0:07:41 GMT -5
Pong was amazing for the time, and who in that era didn't have one of those coleco handheld football games. Hours of fun staring at alternately flashing light emitting diodes.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 26, 2007 7:39:04 GMT -5
Pong was amazing for the time, and who in that era didn't have one of those coleco handheld football games. Hours of fun staring at alternately flashing light emitting diodes. Yep I had one. Hours of fun. Mainly because we didn't know any better. :-) |
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