{"id":1691,"date":"2010-11-09T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:29:34","slug":"sons-of-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/11\/sons-of-pong\/","title":{"rendered":"Sons of Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sons-of-pong-10.png\" alt=\"Sons of Pong\" title=\"Sons of Pong\" width=\"200\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1693\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning was Pong. And in the beginning it stood alone. But not for long &#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn September 1972, Atari&#8217;s Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn installed the prototype Pong machine at Andy Capp&#8217;s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. The idea was to make a computer game that was &#8220;so simple that any drunk in any bar could play.&#8221; And boy, did they ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Atari didn&#8217;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 &#8220;inspired&#8221; by an electronic ping pong game that was in the Magnavox Odyssey home system. To keep up, Bushnell continued to innovate, as did everyone else. Call it a volley between King Pong and his brethren, while an invasion from space was on its way. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/11\/08\/sons-of-pong.html\">Everything You Know is Pong<\/a> by R. Bennett and E. Horowitz\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m very fond of Pong. Not that I spend a lot of time playing it; but I like the <em>idea<\/em> of Pong, I&#8217;m pleased that it exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning was Pong. And in the beginning it stood alone. But not for long &#8230;. In September 1972, Atari&#8217;s Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn installed the prototype Pong machine at Andy Capp&#8217;s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. The idea was to make a computer game that was &#8220;so simple that any drunk in any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coin-operated","category-pong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}