ABSTRACT
The Home Pong project, originally codenamed Darlene after an attractive employee (the atmosphere at Atari was extremely casual at the time), was assigned to Allan Alcorn and Harold Lee. The duo had a first working prototype in the fall of 1974, but finding a company interested in distributing and selling it wasn’t as straightforward as it should have been after Pong’s original success. Most retailers were still doubtful about the prospects of video games and thought that people, while enjoying them at the pub, wouldn’t really want to play such things at home.
