The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar
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In 1972, Atari founders Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn watched patrons at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale encounter their experimental orange box containing a simple tennis-like game called PONG. The device featured two paddles, a square ball, and cost 25 cents to play. Within weeks, the machine's coin mechanism jammed from overflowing quarters, forcing engineer Alcorn to scoop coins from the peanut shell-covered floor, proving the prototype's success and launching the video game industry.
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