In 1984 - at the age of 7 - I drove alone through the city visiting my uncle who lived about 1 hour away in East Berlin. (In the 80's the 'alone' part was not a problem in East-Germany.) I was excited because my uncle owned something I had never seen before. A video game console! And I was allowed to borrow it, because ... it was broken. The cables of both paddles were torn off.

When I got home, my brother excitedly and immediately got to work with a soldering iron. Then we hooked the thing up to the black and white TV, and turned the analog channel search knob until we had a crackly picture. That game was PONG.

As simple as it may seem today, we had so much fun with this game in the days and months to come. For me personally, it became groundbreaking and shaped my later career. 

The real story behind PONG is well known to the most. But Tekla Perry has added a few details that are quite interesting. The Lies that powered the Invention of PONG is a bit click-baity, but the story is as short as it is entertaining.

Worth reading!