An advert for the early video game Pong. Credit: Interfoto/Alamy Hundreds of thousands of human neurons growing in a dish coated with electrodes have been taught to play a version of the classic ...

In a very real way, Pong started the video game revolution. You wouldn’t have thought so at the time, with its simple gameplay, rudimentary controls, some very low-end sounds, and a cannibali… ...

The brain cells never got that good at Pong. But interestingly, human brain cells seemed to achieve a slightly higher level of play than mouse brain cells, Kagan says.

Cortical Labs’ technology first appeared in the scientific journal Neuron in October 2022, demonstrating that neurons in a petri dish can be encouraged to play the computer game Pong.

Pong was one of the first arcade games in the 1970s, which eventually spawned Atari's Home Pong. One of the original prototypes sold at auction for more than $270,000. A MARTINEZ, HOST: Good morning.

An original prototype of an Atari “Home Pong” unit—remembered as one of the earliest video games and the first to be commercially successful—sold for $270,910 at auction, straight from the ...