{"id":488371,"date":"2010-03-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652419620964346731.post-4134283318860467996"},"modified":"2010-03-30T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T07:00:00","slug":"pong-%e2%80%93-a-gamers-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488371","title":{"rendered":"Pong \u2013 A Gamers’ Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this video on the internet the other day, and thought you gamers out there might think this is interesting. When I saw this I thought of Sundance<\/a>, as he is a big time gaming geek. <\/p>\n

It is sort of funny now because video games, and home gaming consoles have been so engrained in our culture for the last 30+ years, but in the early to mid sixties, playing a video game on your TV was unthinkable!<\/p>\n

Below is a video of the very first documented PONG game played on a television from 1969. The inventor of the gaming console seen in the video was Ralph H. Baer<\/a>. According to Pongmuseum.com<\/a>, although the video was taped in 1969, the very first time the game was played was in December of 1967 in preparation for a visit from Teleprompter executives the following January whom they were trying to sell licenses to.<\/p>\n

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I remember the first video games I had at home. They were Defender<\/a> and Asteroids<\/a> on my our Atari 2600 Jr<\/a>. What was the first gaming system you owned? What were some of the games you used to play on it? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n

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I found this video on the internet the other day, and thought you gamers out there might think this is interesting. When I saw this I thought of Sundance, as he is a big time gaming geek. It is sort of funny now because video games, and home gaming consoles have been so engrained in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}