Atari Celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Pong By Announcing The Table Pong Arcade Machine

 

A few days ago, Atari announced the presence of Speakerhat's hat, a hat with built-in headphones and microphones, along with support for Bluetooth connectivity.

Incidentally, this year is also the 45th anniversary of the Pong video game, one of the earliest video games released by Atari. If you do not recognize this Pong video game, it is a video game based on ping-pong games.

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the game, Atari shows the Table Pong arcade cabinet, with a table design that allows players to play the Pong game with another friend.

Table Pong was designed by Allan Alcorn, a new engineer who entered the Atari company, and was given a project to build a video game machine to fit itself into the company. This project is quite interesting as the Pong game in Table Pong is not a 2D video game, but instead it is a 3D mechanical game that uses motors, magnets, platforms and also a pulley system to simulate the game's 2D movement.

The Table Pong project has already gone through the same cost process at Kickstarter, and Califer Inc., the company that started the project, said that the Table Pong machine is said to be on sale in the first quarter of 2018.