<P> After the success of Pong , Bushnell pushed his employees to create new products . In 1974 , Atari engineer Harold Lee proposed a home version of Pong that would connect to a television : Home Pong . The system began development under the codename Darlene , named after an attractive female employee at Atari . Alcorn worked with Lee to develop the designs and prototype , and based them on the same digital technology used in their arcade games . The two worked in shifts to save time and money ; Lee worked on the design 's logic during the day , while Alcorn debugged the designs in the evenings . After the designs were approved , fellow Atari engineer Bob Brown assisted Alcorn and Lee in building a prototype . The prototype consisted of a device attached to a wooden pedestal containing over a hundred wires , which would eventually be replaced with a single chip designed by Alcorn and Lee ; the chip had yet to be tested and built before the prototype was constructed . The chip was finished in the latter half of 1974 , and was , at the time , the highest - performing chip used in a consumer product . </P>
<P> After the success of Pong , Bushnell pushed his employees to create new products . In 1974 , Atari engineer Harold Lee proposed a home version of Pong that would connect to a television : Home Pong . The system began development under the codename Darlene , named after an attractive female employee at Atari . Alcorn worked with Lee to develop the designs and prototype , and based them on the same digital technology used in their arcade games . The two worked in shifts to save time and money ; Lee worked on the design 's logic during the day , while Alcorn debugged the designs in the evenings . After the designs were approved , fellow Atari engineer Bob Brown assisted Alcorn and Lee in building a prototype . The prototype consisted of a device attached to a wooden pedestal containing over a hundred wires , which would eventually be replaced with a single chip designed by Alcorn and Lee ; the chip had yet to be tested and built before the prototype was constructed . The chip was finished in the latter half of 1974 , and was , at the time , the highest - performing chip used in a consumer product . </P>
when did pong become playable on the television
when did pong become playable on the television
1974
1974