A Look At: The Atari Pong Console | Atari's First Console!!!
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- In todays a look at, we travel way back into time and check out Atari's Pong console. Once dubbed to have the most advanced chip in a consumer product, it marked Atari's pathway to success with the Atari 2600. We learn the history of the not only pong, but other video games from as far back as the 50's that inspired it.
Like all my a look at video's, we checkout the history, what's inside, take a 360 tour, power it on, do some gameplay, then I give my thoughts and opinions of the console in the conclusion.
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0:00 Intro
1:47 History of the Pong Console
9:58 A Look Inside
12:25 360 Tour of Pong Console
15:24 Powering it on and Gameplay
18:02 Conclusion
20:04 Outro
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Great video! It's odd but I can't recall the algorithms pushing a PONG documentary video at me all these years so this was quite interesting. Especially given the commercials you included which are always awesome. What struck me is how "old" those commercials seem? I mean, I know they're late 70s but they almost somehow feel 1950s.
Thank man. Well I'm glad its made it to you..lol.. That first commercial is in color is just couldn't find the color version. Seems to be lost to time. Glad you enjoyed it👍👍
To this day I have a pong machine in my sitting room under the smart TV.
Mine is one of the Grandstand TV systems from the 70s, still working yet hardly ever used.
I have 3 of you count atari video pinball as a pong console. I would agree, they don't get much use. Only when friends come by and we play "beer pong" 🤣🤣🤣 The Grandstands weren't too bad.. The ones I've seen are nice looking and have that black and silver vibe like the atari 5200 and 7800.
The Atari 2600 is so legendary, it even got itself another challenger, Mattel IntelliVision.
Also, i played the Arcade cabinet of Atari's
VIDEO PINBALL at a former arcade game hall in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki (Finland 🇫🇮) in 2016.
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Yeah it was. Nice!!! Glad you got to play it. Thanks again...
@@RetrogamerGenX No problem, retro mate 😺👍🕹️.
I also have the Atari arcade & Atari 2600
games for my PlayStation 2 in the
compilations called ATARI ANTHOLOGY and
ACTIVISION ANTHOLOGY 😺👍🕹️.
I also have the IntelliVision games for my PlayStation 2 in a compilation called
INTELLIVISION LIVES 😺👍🕹️.
And since i have a one week winter vacation in the late March this year,
I should make some gameplay videos of the Atari and IntelliVision games 😺👍🕹️.
Being born in ‘77, My furthest back memory is having the Montgomery Ward version
Nice...I remember going to other peoples houses and they had all kinds of different versions. Like yours, lots of stores marketed them to compete with Sears and Atari. Just my opinion but I thought Atari's and Colecos versions were the best.
I have the Atari Pong home video game console which I bought at a thrift store in the late 1980s. It was fun to play, however I had to do some serious clean up work on it before I could play it. I had found an original Atari Pong power adapter at a different thrift store in their olds and ends bin. The reason that I had to get an adapter was because the original owner had left the old carbon batteries in the base of the Atari Pong, so the batteries had corroded inside. I had to ever so carefully remove the batteries and toss them out in a proper receptacle, than I cleansed the rust off of the entire batteries section making sure that the cleanser didn't go anywhere else. Thus I swore that my Atari Pong would only be played with its own power adapter.
Nice find. And my god you've had it forever, kudos to you man. I've seen so many of the pong consoles fried because someone tried an Atari 2600 9v adapter on it. Yeah it fits, but nope, ZAPP!! Won't work!!
@@RetrogamerGenX this is one of the reasons that I always make sure that I read the owner's manual before I ever use any electrical equipment. I know enough about that because a cousin of mine fried out his second hand Fairchild Channel F.
“One machine to rule them all” ;)
Lol right!!!
I had a pong console as a kid, or more accurately, my family had one. I do think the other standalone games are more interesting because there really wasn't anywhere near the number of clones and just a general "pong fever" for those consoles. And I think they are more impressive for TTL games.
Video Pinbal, the various Telstar machines which added tank games and a combat type game, race car games and Stunt Driver are just more interesting to me.
But, there is also no denying the original Atari Pong forever changed home entertainment. I'm just a few years older than you and I think I was maybe 8 the first time I ever saw a Pong game. That was a big step up from chutes and ladders and Candyland board games or Solitaire or some other analog entertainment. One day TV was something you watched the cartoons on, the next day it was playing games.
Yeah I'd have to say Coleco's Telstar systems were pretty awesome. They used the General Instruments "Pong on a Chip" I believe.
Glad to hear I'm the "youngster" LOL Yeah I kind of grew up with video games... I never really got into board games. I remember during family game night, I'd always try to get everybody to play Atari... lol..
BTW... Hi Mom!!!.. lol .. I know she really does read these, cuz I hear about it when I comment about them... 🤣🤣 and on my vids!!
@@RetrogamerGenX I'll have to keep that in mind when I comment!
Great video.
Thanks brother!!!
I had the chance to get one of these in box for $40 about 20 years ago; not sure why I didn't grab it lol
Ah man.. Yeah they are getting harder to come by, But you can still pick them up for about 50-60 bucks boxed. But I feel your pain.. A fun game to get out when friends come by .. Make it a🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺game.. Good times. 🤣🤣Trust me.
How did you connect to newer TVs ?
I actually made a video explaining how this is done a long time ago. Here's the link. It should explain everything you need to know. ua-cam.com/video/skPID1sueIk/v-deo.html
@@RetrogamerGenX Thank you!