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Sagan, Carl (1977). The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. Ballantine Books. p. 225. ISBN 0-345-34629-7. There is a popular game, sometimes called Pong, which stimulates on a television screen a perfectly elastic ball bouncing between two surfaces. ... The game is very interesting. There is a clear learning experience involved which depends exclusively on Newton's second law of linear motion. As a result of Pong, the player can gain a deep intuitive understanding of the simplest Newtonian physics—a better understanding even than that provided by billiards.

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Pong's nickname

I heard this game is the granddaddy of video games.--Nate-Dawg921 (talk) 05:12, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've not heard this nickname before. It was not the first video game, but it was the first arcade and home console game to take off with the general public.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:09, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The creation of Pong

Pong was created by a group of Students & Teachers at Texas State University in 1971...I played the game with my brother on a console that had t sides I was on one side & my brother was on the other side...This was the Summer of 1971 or 1972..According to my memory it was Summer of 1972 & Pong was still being perfected by the students who were working on it,two of them being my Aunt & Uncle Janice & Ray Gay.... 2600:6C55:7C00:1282:E887:D8BA:59C3:47CE (talk) 14:53, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]