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Sagan, Carl (1977). The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. Ballantine Books. p. 225. ISBN 0-345-34629-7. There is a popular game, sometimes called Pong, which stimulates on a television screen a perfectly elastic ball bouncing between two surfaces. ... The game is very interesting. There is a clear learning experience involved which depends exclusively on Newton's second law of linear motion. As a result of Pong, the player can gain a deep intuitive understanding of the simplest Newtonian physics—a better understanding even than that provided by billiards.
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The creation of Pong

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Pong was created by a group of Students & Teachers at Texas State University in 1971...I played the game with my brother on a console that had t sides I was on one side & my brother was on the other side...This was the Summer of 1971 or 1972..According to my memory it was Summer of 1972 & Pong was still being perfected by the students who were working on it,two of them being my Aunt & Uncle Janice & Ray Gay.... 2600:6C55:7C00:1282:E887:D8BA:59C3:47CE (talk) 14:53, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

How can this be based on the Odyssey?

Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments2 people in discussion

This article states that Pong was inspired by the Table Tennis Game on the Magnavox Odyssey, but the Odyssey was released in September of 1972 and Pong was already in development in August... 2607:F2C0:E9BE:60:399B:DFD0:4498:715C (talk) 17:40, 5 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

The answer can already be found in the article: Bushnell saw the system demonstrated at a Magnavox event in May 1972. Indrian (talk) 20:47, 5 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you 2607:F2C0:E9BE:60:399B:DFD0:4498:715C (talk) 03:05, 6 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

-_- It was the very next sentence. How did I miss that? 2607:F2C0:E9BE:60:399B:DFD0:4498:715C (talk) 03:07, 6 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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The creation of Pong

How can this be based on the Odyssey?