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[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

No way that's from 1961.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972.

[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

I think it is a reference to the first filmed “rage quit” by Ralph Baer which was in 1969 over an early table tennis game that then inspired Atari’s Pong.

[-] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

it's actually a reference to "video games cause violence"

[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Doh! That makes more sense.

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