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The game pong was invented in 1972 but it was invented by Allan Alcorn.

Pong was the first game developed by Atari Inc, founded in June 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Pong was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.

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