T he Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial ...

Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test drive to announce on Nov. 29 that they'd be rolling out Pong cabinets for ...

Ah, beer pong. The good old drinking game that never gets old - or boring - no matter how many times you play it. From makeshift tables at random dingy uni houses during Fresher's Week to groomsmen ...

The Aztecs had spiritual ballgames, games with physical displays of devotion and a struggle for collective triumph that remains central to our notions of sport. In the 3,000 years since, we’ve ...

A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game's electronic ball and control ...

Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report August 23 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The researchers ...

Gel plays Pong Left: The electric current sensor readings as they are received by the computer. The black, brown and red lines represent the top, middle and bottom sensors, respectively. Right: The ...

Elon Musk's company Neuralink has created a system that it promised could let a monkey play video games with its mind. As it turns out, that's exactly what it can do, and this special monkey is ...

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of. “We think it’s fair to call them cyborg brains,” Brett Kagan, chief ...

This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...