Title: Pong
Manufacturer: Atari
Year: 1972
Hardware: There is no cpu, the hardware is composed by basic digital logic components.
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Description
"Pong" was the second arcade video game, Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Computer Space and founder of Atari, saw a prototype of the Magnavox Odyssey home console running a table tennis game, and instructed Al Alcorn to design a similar game. Atari was later sued by Magnavox and payed $700,000 for patent infringement.
Unlike "Computer Space", "Pong" was a big commercial success, and because of this people seemed to forget that it was not the first arcade video game.
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Emulation Status
History: This game has not been emulated yet, however, a simulation was added to MAME v0.36b10 by mistake, this simulation remained present untill MAME v0.36b16 and was later removed in MAME v0.36RC1.
Preliminary simulation by MAME v0.36b16
Playable: Yes (with keyboard, as there are severe joypad/joystick control problems)
Sound: Yes
There are arcade games that can never be emulated, like the 1970's electro-mechanical driving simulators or the pinball machines, but this is not the case of Pong, wich is a true arcade video game, and therefore can be emulated, it may not have a processor or software instructions (no roms), but it can be emulated at the circuit level by writing an entire digital logic simulator. It is unlikely that a Pong emulator is able to run at full speed on the available computers (PC's from 2000).
There is no known emulation under development at this time.
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Screenshots
Screenshot from MAME v36b16
