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How Pong paved the way for video gaming 50 years ago
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Fifty years after the original Pong arcade game console appeared, tech journalist and author David Kushner explores how the simple ping pong-inspired game changed the world of video gaming and led to the multibillion-dollar industry we know today. He writes about it in his recent graphic novel, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari and the Dawn of the Video Game.