* The number of copies of Pong ( or commercial clones of PONG ) exceeds 100, 000 units.

Beer Pong is a common physical drinking game.

Pong quickly became a success and is the first commercially successful video game, which led to the start of the video game industry.

Pong is a two-dimensional sports game that simulates table tennis.

The arcade game | arcade version of Pong is released.

The game also features a mini-game called " Paddle War ", a remake of the video game Pong, though this version is vertical instead of horizontal.

The track was sold to Thai Railways and the 130 km Ban Pong – Namtok section relaid and is in use today.

The provincial slogan is Fa Daet Song Yang Ancient City, Pong Lang Folk Music, Phu Thai Culture, Phrae Wa Silk, Pha Saweoi Phu Phan, Lam Pao River, and Million-year Dinosaurs.

" Throw Pong " was then brought to Lehigh University by fraternity brothers who visited Bucknell, and this led to the creation of the version of beer pong that is played today.

A regulation size table is 8 ' x2 ' x27. 5 " and is recognized by The World Series of Beer Pong ( WSOBP ) as being the standard in beer pong table game play.

The provincial slogan is Beautiful women of Photharam, beautiful women of Baan Pong, the city of earthenware jars, shadow plays at Wat Khanon, magnificent caves, floating market at Damnoen, bats, delicious Yii Sok fish.

Like Pong, it is a portrait of a game of tennis or ping-pong, but featured different game mechanics that have very little resemblance to the later game.

Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both later found Atari, Inc., it is generally accepted that it was the world's first commercially sold coin-operated video game — and indeed, the first commercially sold video game of any kind, predating the Magnavox Odyssey's release by six months, and Atari's Pong by one year.

It is currently one of only three video games ( along with Pong and Pac-Man ) on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

The name Gnop is Pong spelled backwards.

A notable example is Frontier, which every other magazine touted as the greatest space flight game ever, but Amiga Power ranked # 100 in their top 100 list ( emphasising the point by placing it one place below a public-domain version of Pong ).

The reason for the name paddle for this type of game controller is that the first game that used it, Pong, was a video game simulation of table tennis, whose racquets are commonly called paddles.

For his actions of 22 October 2009, on 1 November 2009, at a meeting of senior members of the Thai monastic sangha, held at Wat Pah Pong, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, Brahm was removed from the Ajahn Chah Forest Sangha lineage and is no longer associated with the main monastery in Thailand, Wat Pah Pong, nor with any of the other Western Forest Sangha branch monasteries of the Ajahn Chah tradition .< ref >

* April – The North Korean freighter Pong Su is stormed by Special Operations Command troops carrying almost 125 kg ( 300 lb ) of heroin.

It is shown in the book's map as being bounded to the south by the Lhong Chuk Sea and the Pong and Kut Rivers to the north and east respectively.

Phaic Tăn is depicted as being roughly 650 kilometres abroad from east-west at its broadest point and the same distance from its far geographical north-east tip to the Pong Delta in the country's south-east.

The capital city of Phaic Tăn is Bumpattabumpah, which is situated in Buhng Lung in a roughly central position on the Pong River and at the west end of the Upper Kut River.

While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.

The first prototype of Pong, one of the first arcade videogames, was installed in Sunnyvale in September 1972, in a bar named Andy Capp's Tavern, now Rooster T. Feathers.

Though there was no direct kinship between the two games, Tennis for Two was a predecessor of Pong — one of the most widely recognized video games as well as one of the first.

After working on mechanical games, in 1972, he developed Elepong ( similar to Pong ), one of Japan's earliest locally-produced video arcade games, released in 1973.

Most competitive games feature some level of symmetry ; some ( such as Pong ) are completely symmetric, but those in which players alternate turns ( such as Chess ) can never achieve total symmetry as one player will always have a first-move advantage.

Pote's sons are Pong, a leading businessman, Police General Pow, who once served as the Chief of the Royal Thai Police, and Arsa, who, like his father, was also one of the former foreign ministers of Thailand and is now serving as King Bhumibol's Principal Private Secretary.

The Ping Pong recording technique ( also called ping-ponging or " bouncing " tracks, and reduction mixing ) is used in sound recording, to condense program material by dubbing multiple parts to just one or two tracks, allowing more room for overdubbing or to simplify mixdowns.

The funds used for its construction were raised by Low Kim Pong and Yeo Poon Seng, one of the saw mill pioneers during the period.

During the construction of the Death Railway in World War II Ban Pong was the location of one of the POW camps.

Some of the earliest known video games were two-player games, including early sports games like Tennis For Two ( 1958 ) and Pong ( 1972 ), early shooter games like Spacewar!

The earliest video games, such as Tennis for Two, Spacewar !, and Pong, were two-player, with single-player games gaining popularity soon after with titles such as Speed Race and Space Invaders.

Most of the earliest home video game systems were dedicated consoles, most popularly Pong and its many imitators.

The Odyssey was initially only moderately successful, and it was not until Atari's arcade game Pong popularized video games, that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry.

** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

Throughout the 1970s, electro-mechanical arcade games were gradually replaced by electronic video games, following the release of Pong in 1972.

Since virtually all video game consoles and arcade cabinets designed and built after 1980 were true digital machines ( unlike the analog Pong clones and derivatives ), some of them carried a minimal form of BIOS or built-in game, such as the ColecoVision, the Sega Master System and the SNK Neo Geo.

The arcade video game was born in Nevada County, with Pong.

Bushnell later recruited Al Alcorn and created a sensation with the much easier to grasp Pong arcade game modeled on Ralph Baer's Magnavox Odyssey home system's Tennis game.

Home console games often use split-screen so that each player has an individual view of the action ( important for genres such as first person shooter and racing video games ), although most arcade games and some console games ( ranging from Pong ) do not.

The following year, Atari, Inc. released the first commercially successful video game, Pong, the original arcade version of which sold over 19, 000 arcade cabinets.

However, both the arcade and home markets would be dominated by Pong clones, which flooded the market and led to the video game crash of 1977.

In the 1970s, arcade video games began to appear, many of them centred around the sports genre, after it was popularized by the first commercially successful video game, Atari's Pong ( 1972 ).

It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, and influenced by the 1972 arcade game Pong, also by Atari.

* Pong was the first commercially successful video arcade game, as well as the first video game to be subject to a lawsuit

* Atari releases its first arcade game, Al Alcorn's Pong.

This was the original intention of the system, to be able to run the handful of arcade games Atari had already produced with simple playfields, like Tank and Pong.

In 1973, the company branched out into the coin-operated arcade video game market with its Pong clone Paddle Ball.

Taking note of Atari's success with Pong in 1973, Williams decided to enter the fledgling coin-operated arcade videogame industry.

In 1973 Chicago Coin attempted to get in on the Pong craze by releasing two arcade game consoles: TV Football and TV Hockey.

Paddles first appeared in video arcade games with Atari Inc .' s Pong in 1972, while the first console to use paddles was Magnavox's Odyssey that same year.

1971 was chosen as an earlier start date by the project for two reasons: the creator of Pong filed a pivotal patent regarding video game technology, and it was the release of the first arcade video game machine, Computer Space.