In one year, Atari made a little over $3.2 million dollars. However, there was a black side to this fortune. Atari never patented the design for Pong. Since the game was designed using discreet logic, there was very little they could do to protect their intellectual property. Anyone who owned a machine could open it up, examine the circuit board, and copy it chip for chip. By the end of 1973, there were so many competitors selling Pong style games, that Atari was no longer the leading... [+]

Television Magasine, october 1974 (England). This system was announced in october 1974 by Television Magasine, and was sold either ready-made or as in kit form. As you can see on the picture, the system is digital without using dedicated game chip and displays digital scores on the screen. We could wonder who would have designed such a system. Excepted those who know the PONG story, people would say "a talented electronician". False !!! The board that you see is nothing else than a bootleg.... [+]