Atari Video Games

When Pong Was King
By Ben Marks — This morning, our pals at BoingBoing alerted us to a new book by Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz called "Everything You Know Is Pong." According to the BoingBoing post, "Atari didn't have the patent on the technology and very quickly the vast majority in the machines eating quarters around the country were knock-offs. Of course, Pong itself was 'inspired' by an electronic ping pong game that was in the Magnavox Odyssey home system." Check out BoingBoing's cool gallery of Pong...

10 Great Retro Games for iPhones and iPads
By Daniel Bohm — Many of the best-loved handheld, video, and arcade games are defiantly old school. Indeed, there's something timeless about games like Pong, Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong, which today have found new life on iPhones and iPads as downloadable apps. Everyone from 30-something guys with fond memories of their first Nintendo NES to kids who've never even heard of Nolan Bushnell (he gave Pong its start) have taken to loading these retro games of the 1970s onto a new generation of electronic devices. We...