Modern Era · North America · Technology
1972
Pong arrives in bars
1972
Atari's Nolan Bushnell placed a prototype of a two-paddle video ping-pong game in a Sunnyvale tavern. Within days the machine had stopped working because its coin slot was jammed with quarters. The video game industry had been born in a beer-soaked bar. Within a decade it would earn more than Hollywood.
In context
Also in 1972 (6 other events on record)
- Nixon goes to China · East Asia · Politics
- Watergate burglary · North America · Politics
- Munich Olympics massacre · Europe · War
- Bloody Sunday in Derry · Europe · Politics
- Uganda expels its Asians · Africa · Politics
- Managua earthquake · North America · Disaster
Before and after in North America
- Before: 1971: Greenpeace founded
- After: January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade
Before and after in Technology
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