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Eren Ucar - Allan Alcorn (Games Created by Allan Alcorn (Pong (Pong was…
Eren Ucar - Allan Alcorn
Allan Alcorn was the creator of Pong, the video game most credited for starting the age of video games basically making video games popular.
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Other companies made copies of pong, but so did atari including:
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Around 180,000 units and copies were sold including the home edition and the arcade game.
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4007/Atari-PONG/
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Most people agree that the Atari Inc. Pong arcade machine was around 800$ a machine and all in all the game made around 28,000,000$
In an interview with retrogamer, Allan tells a fascinating story
“Andy Capp’s was one of our better locations. We knew the owner, Bill Gattiss” He states, he also says here that
"About a week or ten days later, I did get a call from Bill saying that the machine wasn’t working. It didn’t surprise me. That prototype was so poorly made, if you’d banged on it, it would’ve stopped working. I went down to fix it after work and some people were there waiting and were quite upset. It had gained a following, which surprised me. I opened the coin box to get a free game and saw the problem – it was packed with quarters." after being asked by the reporter; And did the coin box ever get so full the machine stopped working?
https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/developer/allan-alcorn/
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January 1, 1948, San Francisco, California, United States
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