Pong, while not the first videogame, was the first coin-op arcade game and the first mainstream videogame that was available to almost everyone. Pong was the impetus for the development of the ...

"Home Pong" was one of the first popular at-home video games. It kicked off a boom in the mid-70s, shifting the video game industry from arcade-style systems to at-home consoles.

The most recognizable game in this era was one of the best games of all-time, Pong. In this generation, consoles were essentially smaller arcade machines in the sense that most could only play one ...

Explore the revolutionary journey of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, and its impact on the gaming industry.

Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's what it was capable of.

50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. To mark the anniversary, Atari co-founder and Pong designer Allan Alcorn spoke with NPR to reflect on the game's development.

A few years later, the home version of Pong would become an instant success, with Sears selling about 150,000 units of the console you needed to play the game.

For a point in time, Atari was seemingly the king of the video game console market. But it unravelled quite quickly. Here's how it went down.

The history of video game consoles is measured by generations. Unlike the often abstract ways that human generations are measured by pre-determined periods of years, console generations are more ...

Having learned the ropes of console design by observing the work of Mitsubishi's designers on those early Pong clones, Uemura saw in Block Kuzushi a chance to take Nintendo's game development ...

From the earliest home consoles up to the latest PlayStation and Nintendo hardware, these are all the console generations and the notable systems within them.