NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Allan Alcorn, the creator of Pong, about how the game impacted the industry and his life. Pong was released by Atari 50 years ago. Two moving lines, a dot that volleys ...

Allan Alcorn was desperate when he hired a young college dropout named Steve Jobs. Atari, the fledgling computer games company he worked for, was scrambling to staff up after the sudden success of ...

The device came from the collection of Allan Alcorn, who helped design the Cosmos. The system ultimately became a footnote in the gaming industry, but Alcorn had already cemented his legacy by ...

Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. Fifty years ago this week, to mark the anniversary, we've called up Allan Alcorn, co-founder of Atari and computer scientist who designed Pong.