en:pong [Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2020]

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====== PONG and the forgotten ATARI - Arcade- machines ======

** Wolfgang Nake **

===== Thats how it all started. ... (Homage to Ralph Baer)=====
 

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The invention of the usage a TV-device for games was in middle of the 60s !

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The Brownbox from Ralph Baer - the really first TV-game of the world. Any years later there was produced the "Odyssey"

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Ralph Baer receives the award from the President of the United States for his epoch-making discovery and invention in 2006.

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           ATARI   1972 - 1975
           
=== All these games are Hardware-Games, they are no computers and delivers a TV-signal ===
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======  replicas/ Restorations  ======
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==== PONG  - the big bang of industrial video game production ====


{{:20161004_115216.jpg?200|}} The original and my replic    {{:imag0419.jpg?200|}}
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Many people waits on the gamescom (Cologne) to play  one of the oldest game! \\
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 {{:sdc14440.jpg?300 |}} TV-Basic-Signals
 
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{{:sdc14438.jpg?300|}} Scores, game-control

{{:20200122_141801.jpg?400|}} restored Original-PONG-Board
{{:b2.jpg?400|}} defective chips
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===== SPACE RACE ===== 
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my restored SPACE RACE - Originalboard (ebay-scrap board :-) ) on the right: partial replica, the same TV-basic-card like for PONG (left card) additional colored video-output
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===== PONG DOUBLES =====
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Replica of PONG-Doubles (draft-version) with selectable paddle-lenght and additional colored video-output. the same TV-basic-card like for PONG (left card)
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PONG DOUBLES on Gamesweek BERLIN 2019
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===== REBOUND and QUADRAPONG are under construction =====

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Video edititing of multiple historical video-game clips from Youtube


===== Virtual Exhibition Desk =====

[[https://bbb.vcfb.de/b/wol-e8c-2kx-bxf|To the virtual exhibition desk]]

Here, you can find the times and days when the room is open to have a look at the exhibition, for questions, discussions and chit chat with the exhibitor.

==== Availability Times ====

^ Day         ^ Time          ^
|Saturday     | 00:00 - 00:00 |
|Saturday     | 00:00 - 00:00 |
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|Sunday       | 10:00 - 12:00 |
|Sunday       | 14:00 - 20:00 |
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