Shortly after the first machine was installed, it quickly broke down. Upon arriving at the scene the creator noted that it wasn't a technical glitch, instead the game had been so popular that the coin slot had simply been overflowed with quarters.
The first successful video game.
Was one of the first six video games to be inducted into the National Museum of Play's World Video Game Hall of Fame.
Made its debut at a tavern called Andy Capp's (now Rooster T. Feathers) in Sunnyvale, California.
The Smithsonian Institute is home to a Pong coin-op machine.