pongmuseum.com – And the ball was square…

The museum is officially opened to the public – since 27 January 2009 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the video ping-pong and the birthday of the Magnavox Odyssey 37 years ago. Any informations, inputs, contributions or anything related to Pong systems will be greatly appreciated – please contact us.

In 1966, Ralph H. Baer came up with the concept of a "television gaming apparatus." This device included both a chase game and a video tennis game, and could be attached to a normal television set. There were about 40 million TV sets in the US homes alone in 1966, to say nothing of many more millions of TV sets in the rest of the world. They were literally begging to be used for something other than watching commercial television broadcasts!

An email from Ralph H. Baer - January 26, 2009

Hello Oliver,

this may be the 37th birthday of the Magnavox Odyssey game but it's also the 40th birthday of the video ping pong. It might be nice if you included the short video of Bill Harrison and me playing ping-pong back in 1969, which I am attaching.
Good luck with your new site,

Ralph H. Baer

I am proud to present the video on the museums index page, later it can be found in the History section. Now – have fun in the pong museum – many pong consoles and historic informations will follow! Please sign up to the RSS Feed to be up to date.

Yours, Oliver – Curator