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Allan Alcorn is an American engineer and computer scientist who created Pong, one of the first video games. He also designed Cosmos, a game console with holographic overlays, and hired Steve Jobs at Atari.
May 8, 2024 · Learn about Allan Alcorn, the engineer who invented Pong and shaped the video game industry. He also cofounded several technology startups and received the International Video Game Hall of Fame award.
Nov 15, 2017 · Alcorn, determined to impress General Electric, drove to a department store on El Camino Real and bought its best black-and-white television.
On June 27, 1972 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari in Sunnyvale, California, and hired Allan Alcorn to design the table tennis (ping-pong) game “PONG.” Pong was the first commercially successful video game (videogame).
Allan Alcorn created Pong, one of the earliest and most influential arcade video games, as a training exercise for Atari in 1972. Learn about the game's development, features, impact, and legacy in this Wikipedia article.
Dec 6, 2022 · 50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. To mark the anniversary, Atari co-founder and Pong designer Allan Alcorn spoke with NPR to reflect on the game's development.
Nov 29, 2022 · The first engineer to join the team was Allan Alcorn, a University of California graduate who had “never played a video game before”, according to Professor Allison Marsh, writing at IEEE ...
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