{"id":1030120,"date":"2022-03-22T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/home-pong-atari-prototype-auctioned-for-more-than-270000\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T00:40:48","slug":"home-pong-atari-prototype-auctioned-for-more-than-270000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/home-pong-atari-prototype-auctioned-for-more-than-270000\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Home Pong&#039; Atari prototype auctioned for more than $270,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Home-Pong-Atari-prototype-auctioned-for-more-than-270000.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 21 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An original prototype for Atari&#8217;s <i>Home Pong<\/i> video game system was auctioned for more than $270,000 and came from the collection of the landmark game&#8217;s creator.<\/p>\n<p>RR Auction, based in Boston, said the <i>Home Pong<\/i> prototype, which featured a finished <i>Pong <\/i>chip in a prototype circuit board in the base and a hand-carved wooden mockup of the Pong system on top, sold for $270,910.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The design was in the Sears Tele-Games version of <i>Pong <\/i>in 1975 and Atari Pong Model C-100 in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype came from the collection of Allan Alcorn, who created <i>Pong<\/i>, one of the first video arcade games, in the 1970s. The auction included a letter of provenance signed by Alcorn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1975, Atari had managed to become dominant in the coin-operated entertainment business and moved on to build video games for the home market. We had to get <i>Pong <\/i>running on a single chip of silicon so a product could be built at a price a consumer could afford,&#8221; Alcorn wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 21 (UPI) &#8212; An original prototype for Atari&#8217;s Home Pong video game system was auctioned for more than $270,000 and came from the collection of the landmark game&#8217;s creator. RR Auction, based in Boston, said the Home Pong prototype, which featured a finished Pong chip in a prototype circuit board in the base and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}