It can be hard to look at Pong now and think it's impressive. When we consider the games we have nowadays, Pong is less than primitive. It is two bars, a square and a scoreboard. This is borderline archaic; but it IS important, and that importance cannot be understated.

I believe in giving games their original context, but even at that, I don't know if I'd have been as impressed with Pong in 1972 as I probably would've been with The Oregon Trail or Computer Space.