Is the game Pong classified as a computer game or not? I got into an argument with a freind and couldn't decide if it was closer to being a console or a personal computer game.

The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972. According to the iconic games firm, “from an initial investment of $500, Atari made its first million,” from the success of Pong.

MARTINEZ: That's right - the original table tennis arcade game from the 1970s. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that this novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.

A new neuroscience study published this week in Neuron shows how a brain cell system grown in a laboratory dish called “DishBrain” learns to play in a computer game-world inspired by the classic ...