Saturday, March 13, 2010

Footage of Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison Demonstrating Ping-Pong Video Game (1969)

Forty years ago today, the first video game on a television set was played by these two men. Two years later, they would be recorded demonstrating their famous Ping-Pong game on the "brown box" console, which later became the basis of Atari's Pong.

For the whole story, check out "Video Games Turn Forty" at 1UP.com: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.o...

Also, here is an interview with Bill Harrison:http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index...


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