PONG. No, Really ...
I know you kids will find this hard to believe, but PONG® was once the only game in town. You know, back in the Jurassic Age 
when mom was growing up. This first wildly popular video game of the early 1970s consisted of knocking a computer-controlled "blip" back and forth across a cathode ray screen (another dinosaur).
PONG was made by Atari , a company founded in 1972 by 29-year-old computer whiz Nolan Bushnell . Wells Fargo's Special Industries Group in Palo Alto helped the fledgling firm get ponging by providing a $50,000 line of credit so that Atari could begin manufacturing its product. Atari parlayed this credit into sales of over $3 million in its first year. And the "PONG" rest is "PONG" history ...
