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  date:
  
  label:Date made
  content:1976

  
  label:date made
  content:1976-1977


  name:
  
  label:maker
  content:Atari, Inc.

  
  label:Maker
  content:Sears, Roebuck and Co.


  notes:
   
   label:Description
   content:Pong is an electronic game that simulates on a two-dimensional screen the play in table tennis (Ping Pong). The California firm of Atari originally introduced it in 1972 as an arcade game (see 1984.0890.01). Seeking a larger market, Atari designers soon were working on a smaller device that could be played at home, with a television set as screen. A home version of the game was distributed from late 1975 by Sears, Roebuck and Company. This is a slightly later version of that game, sold as "Super Pong" from 1976.

   
   label:Description
   content:Two gray controllers fit into the brown plastic game unit. Each controller is marked: Sears. The unit played four games. Text at the center top of the game unit reads: SUPER PONGTM (/) TELE-GAMESTM. Atari filed for a trademark for PONG in 1975, and it was registered November 28, 1978. Sears applied for a trademark for TELE-GAMES in 1977, and it was registered April 11, 1978. A Sears catalog from 1976 and 1977 advertised Tele-games Super Pong (indicating trademarks). Hence it seems likely that the game dates from between 1976 and 1977. By 1978, Super Pong was offered on cartridge.

   
   label:Description
   content:.

   
   label:Description
   content:References:

   
   label:Description
   content:[Advertisement], <I>Hartford Courant</I>, April 5, 1978, p. 30

   
   label:Description
   content:[Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, Apr 6, 1978, p. G25.

   
   label:Description
   content:[Advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, March 29, 1978, p. C4.

   
   label:Description
   content:Henry Lowood, “Videogames in Computer Space: The Complex History of Pong,” <I>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing</I>, vol. 31 #3, July-September 2009, pp. 5-19.

   
   label:Description
   content:Sears, Roebuck and Company, <I>Wish Book for the 1976 Christmas Season</I>, pp. 390-391.

   
   label:Description
   content:Sears, Roebuck, and Company, <I>Catalog</I>, Spring, 1977, p. 1044. The game is priced at $78.95. Games played include electronic versions of catch, basketball, handball, and (as with the original Pong) table tennis.

   
   label:Description
   content:Sears, Roebuck, and Company, <I>Catalog</I>, Fall, 1977, p. 1262. The game costs $39.95.

   
   label:Description
   content:Sears, Roebuck, and Company, <I>Catalog</I>, Spring, 1978, p. 1060. Doesn't include this form of Super Pong.

   
   label:Location
   content:Currently not on view


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   label:Subject
   content:Entertainment


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   content:Medicine and Science: Computers

   
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   content:Computers & Business Machines


   creditLine:
   
   label:Credit Line
   content:Collected by Jon Eklund


   dataSource:
   
   label:Data Source
   content:National Museum of American History


   identifier:
   
   label:ID Number
   content:2006.0132.31

   
   label:catalog number
   content:2006.0132.31

   
   label:accession number
   content:2006.0132


   objectType:
   
   label:Object Name
   content:Electronic Game


   physicalDescription:
   
   label:Physical Description
   content:plastic (overall material)

   
   label:Physical Description
   content:metal (overall material)

   
   label:Measurements
   content:overall: 7 in x 11 in x 6 in; 17.78 cm x 27.94 cm x 15.24 cm



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