The original coin-op cabinet operated entirely via hundreds of interconnected circuit boards. It told the television cathode-ray tube (CRT) exactly when to fire electrons to illuminate pixels on a 192x160 resolution screen.
No code. Just cardboard.
Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor pong atari rom
⚠️ Keep a backup — original Pong ROMs are tiny and fragile. The original coin-op cabinet operated entirely via hundreds
To bring the game to living rooms via the Sears Tele-Games Pong console , Atari condensed the massive arcade circuit board into a single custom integrated circuit. While it shrunk the footprint, it still relied on dedicated silicon logic rather than standard software code. The Atari 2600 and Video Olympics (1977) pong atari rom