PING-PING-PONG

[packman]

[Twoflower]

1. Is that year correct. Hair and clothes look more like 1971.

[wcmagumba]

2. As a sophomore in HS I went to a summer debate camp...

at an area small college...stayed in the dorm and they had a table model Pong...I was amazed...1972-73...

[FakeNoose]

3. I think it was more like 1972?

According to Wikipedia ...
(link) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

Also my own memory which could be faulty. I don't believe I saw a Pong game console before 1973. Most families didn't own personal computers before the early 80's, so these Pong consoles were placed in bars and arcades, and people would put a quarter in to play.

By the mid-80s Pong could be played on a home PC, if you had Windows 3.1 or a TRS80.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. My father bought the home-console in the mid-70's.

Then that was it for any video game consoles in our household!

While other kids in the neighborhood later got Atari consoles to play Asteroids and such, and even later Nintendo consoles, our household just had the old Pong console collecting dust on a shelf of the TV room.

My parents didn't like kids sitting idly to play them, so I'd just visit a friend's house to be a game-playing slug instead.

[happybird]

5. Several years ago, my Mom admitted that when she got us an Atari for Christmas

she spent a week glued to it while my sister and I were at school and Dad was at work. She was a closet Space Invaders and Asteroid junkie.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Lol!

Those were the two Atari games mostly played with my friends too, trying to get the highest scores. Of course, the kids who actually had those games at home eventually got high scores that I couldn't reach anymore.