This picture was taken in November 1972, the first Pong video game machine was installed at Andy Cap's Tavern by Allan Alcron and Nolan Bushnell. A week after the installation of the machine, it stopped working correctly because it was overflowing with the quarters clients inserted to play.
Pong was one of the earliest arcade games produced and the first one developed by Atari. The creation of the game started as a training exercise for Allan, Bushnell had hired him because of his experience in electrical engineering and computer science. Nolan explained to him what he wanted him to implement in the design: digits for scorekeeping, two paddles and one moving spot.
Bushnell decided to assign the project to Alcron after visiting the Magnavox Profit Caravan where he played the table tennis demonstration and felt it lacked some quality. Allan designed the first Pong machine and added special features to make it more catching in August 1972.
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