The control knobs didn’t even have extension cords. You had to sit shoulder to shoulder. I think that was a big innovation for Atari systems.

I was never big on video games. My brother and I used to get the square and “paddles” (I guess) set right at the net so the square just bounced between them. We’d run out and play for a couple hours to come home and hear the noise and congratulate each other.

Sorry Earth and Mom’s check book.

Game was totally, beyond repair, gruesomely, unequivocally, super BORING. Put me off video games forever.

It was revolutionary!

Those were the days, lol.

I was living in an AF dorm room as a junior enlisted. I bought the Pong game, hooked it up to my B&W TV, and we'd play it at night. Other guys in the dorm would come over and ask to play it. Back then, it was "state of the art" in video games. Nowadays, even they youngest kids wouldn't play with it. As the 80s, 90s, and 2000s progressed the systems have improved to an unbelievable level in terms of graphics, sound, and action.

Remember when 3D headsets first came out in the late 80s and early 90s. Back then, the shapes were line drawings, with no details, of objects. I remember trying one in an arcade and it was a tank battle. The tanks were all outlined and today they remind me of the Cybertruck. Not surprising that the image of the truck looks like a stick figure drawing in a very old video game.

It was made by a company called Syzygy (later Atari} at
a Togo's sandwich shop on Campbell Ave. across the street
from The Pruneyard shopping center, if my addled brain
correctly recalls.