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Happy birthday Pong - Happy birthday Museum!
January 27, 2010
On 27 January 2010 we celebrate the first birthday of the Pong Museum. We have had a wonderfull start last year and could collect many fascinating pong systems in the last twelve months. The museum is promoted on many websites including switched.com, boingboing.net, retromagazine.eu and "7 Bizarre Museums You Don't Want to Miss". We had a nice chat with Jamillah Knowles from BBC Radio on air in UK. Mr. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of Home Video Games and the Odyssey, signed our museum´s Odyssey 200 in Berlin on July 29, 2009. Also our Pong Clock # 283 has been signed by the designer Sander Mulder in December 2009. Around 55.000 people have visited the museum´s page within the first year and around 280.000 pages have been viewed. I look forward to collect more systems and share some interesting facts about video ping-pong and its history. Please come back - this is a project in process. Greetings from Berlin,
Oliver, curator
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Mr Baer signed our Odyssey 200 - photo by Hien
September 28, 2009
 Many thanks to Hien Camilla Segieth - our favorite museum´s photographer - we have a very nice photo of Mr. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of Home Video Games and museum´s curator Oliver.
Mr Baer signed our museum´s Odyssey 200 in Berlin on July 29, 2009. Mr. Baer visited Berlin to celebrate the online launch of the "History of Video Games Timeline" by Computerspiele Museum Berlin.
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Graph depicting the history of the video consoles
September 2, 2009
 On September 3rd 2009, a graph depicting the history of the video console will be published in the German newspaper " Die Zeit". We are very pleased that a number of our collector's items will be used to illustrate the graph and the accompanying article. A special thanks to Adrian Scheel from www.console-picture-page.de for his support. The graph will appear on September 3rd in the Thursday edition of "Die Zeit", Germany's biggest weekly newspaper. The following items will be presented from our collection: Intellivision VC 4000, the Philips/Magnavox - VideoPac Console "Odyssey II" and an ATARI 7800 Joypad. ----------- Morgen am 3. September wird ein ganzseitiges Schaubild über die Geschichte der Spielkonsole in der deutschen Zeitung " Die Zeit" gedruckt. Wir freuen uns das einige unserer Sammlungsstücke zur bebilderung des Schaubildes und des Artikels genutzt werden konnten. Ein besonderer Dank geht auch an Adrian Scheel von www.console-picture-page.de für die Unterstützung. Das Schaubild erscheint in der Donnerstagausgabe am 3. September 2009 in "Die Zeit", Deutschlands größter Tageszeitung. Aus unserer Sammlung werden präsentiert: Intellivision VC 4000, die Philips/Magnavox - VideoPac Konsole "Odyssey II" und ein ATARI 7800 Joypad.
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Featured at www.uberclub.org
March 29, 2009
Thanks to Mescalito for featuring the museum at www.uberclub.org
Et oui, Pong a 40 ans ! Et depuis quelques jours son musée en ligne : le PONG Museum !!! "En 1966, Ralph Baer, technicien chez Sanders Associates, conçoit un système permettant de jouer sur une télévision normale. Rien qu’aux Etats-Unis, 40 millions de foyers sont alors équipés. Le dispositif comprend alors un jeu vidéo de poursuite et un de tennis. Ses idées sont brevetées et il crée plusieurs prototypes. Trois années plus tard, en 1969, Ralph H. Baer et Bill Harrison jouaient, sous l’objectif d’une caméra, au premier jeu vidéo sur téléviseur. Il faudra ensuite attendre 1972 pour que Magnavox sorte sa console, la Magnavox Odyssey, et que Nolan Bushnell, co-fondateur d’Atari, commercialise le jeu sous son nom Pong.
Créé par l’allemand Oliver Soekhel, le pongmuseum est essentiellement consacré à l’historique du jeu vidéo. La rubrique Collection propose aussi un petit retour dans l’histoire des consoles " dont la plupart du temps je n'avais même pas entendu parler...entre les screenshots (d'époque, bien entendu) et le design très années 60-70 des consoles, on à l'impression de se trouver dans Startrek ou Cosmos1999, c'est Old School de chez Old Skool...mais c'est sympa de voir les balbutiements du développement du JV de manière détaillée.
(les éléments en italiques proviennent du site ecrans, oui, je sais, je en suis qu'une vile feignasse XD )
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Featured at yahoyt.com
March 5, 2009
 03/02/2009 - Kare top 40 yaşında
Dünyanın ilk yaygın bilgisayar oyunu Pong, bu yıl 40 yaşına girdi. Sanal Pong müzesi Pongmuseum.com, hem hikayeyi anlatıyor hem de iyi korunmuş örnekleri sergiliyor.
Penc-Pong (02/12/2008)
Ralph H. Baer ve baş mühendisi Bill Harrison tarafından 1969'da geliştirilen ve 1970'lerde piyasaya çıkan, şu an "bilgisayar oyunu" diye bir şeyin varolmasının nedenlerinden olan "video tenis oyunu" Pong, içinde bulunduğumuz yıl itibariyle 40 yaşını idrak etti.
Yaygın olarak bilinenin aksine, Pong oynanan ilk "atari"yi Atari değil, Baer'in teklif götürdüğü firmalardan biri olan Magnavox, "Oddysey" adı altında imal etti. Atari de, gördüğü ve etkilendiği Pong'u aynı yılın ilerleyen dönemlerinde piyasaya sürdü. Zamanla cihazların içindeki oyunlar artıp çeşitlendi ve "video/televizyon oyunları" fikri buradan alıp yürüdü. Pongmuseum.com, bu etkili cihazın tarihini anlatırken, bir yandan da elindeki eski "Pong" konsollarını resimleri ve özellikleriyle sergiliyor.
Ancak unutmamalı ki, Pong'un doğrudan etkilendiği ilk "bilgisayar oyunu", fizikçi William Highbothingam'ın 1959'da geliştirdiği ve radarlarınkine benzer bir osiloskop ekranında oynanan etkileşimli tenis oyunuydu.
Thank you for promoting the museum :-) But what language is this?
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Featured at retroguiden.blogspot.com
March 3, 2009
 I år är det 40 år sedan Pong officiellt gjorde entré. Vad passar bättre då än att göra ett besök på Pong-muséet som öppnade förra månaden? Har kan man läsa om historien bakom Pong, Magnavox Odyssey och allt annat Pong-relaterat. Bland annat har mannen bakom Pong, Ralph Baer, bidragit med en video där han och en kollega demonstrerar spelet 1969. Pongmuseum.com öppnade upp sina portar i slutet av januari och är väl värt ett besök för att andas in lika delar nostalgi, pionjäranda och spelhistoria.
Thanks to retroguiden.blogspot.com for the nice words ;-)
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February 24, 2009
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