Thatababy by Paul Trap for July 24, 2019

classic video game before Mario Brothers or Pac-Man or even Pokémon

I remember being mezmorized by a display setup in an appliance store window. I thought the technology was incredible, and I was, at the time, an IBM main frame programmer.

Before video games were stereotyped as toys, the first successful arcade debuted in a bar!

I wonder how many readers never saw or heard pong…except on YouTube.

If you hit the ball just right, you could keep it bouncing back & forth as long as you wanted or until someone pulled the plug.

Wait a minute! How do you know about Pong®?

One of the earliest of the simple video games.

I’d have never guessed it.