Here's how much an original prototype of an Atari “Home Pong” unit sold at auction for:
An original prototype of an Atari “Home Pong” unit – remembered as one of the earliest video games and the first to be– sold for $270,910 at auction, straight from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn.event and entertainment area at the 2014 Gamescom gaming trade fair on August 14, 2014 in Cologne, Germany.
that would go on to be reflected in the earliest models of “Home Pong,” according to RR Auctions, a Boston-based auction house.the first “Home Pong” sold in stores during the 1975 Christmas shopping season at Sears under the department store’s Tele-Games brand before Atari produced their own Atari Pong Model C-100 the following year.
The game was sold alongside a letter of provenance signed by Alcorn that also describes Atari’s efforts to create a commercial, at-home version of their wildly successful Pong arcade game. Alcorn wrote that the prototype’s success hinged on the replacing the arcade game’s expensive hard-wired printed circuit boards with a smaller and more affordableThe game is one of two prototypes Atari used to show potential customers, and the other is held inbefore and that he believed it would be the hardest part of the entire project. To his surprise, the plastic case designed to cover the system ended up taking longer to design and produce and cost more money than the chip.
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