The Ghost of RubangB on 02 July 2010
I'm pretty sure Pong legitimized gaming as a "form of entertainment." Pong was up there with pool, darts, poker, and other bar games, and I think all of those are considered "legitimate forms of entertainment." I think it was mostly Pac-Man and Donkey Kong (and maybe to a lesser extent the acid trip that was Q-Bert and some other weird games) that really upped the ante and got people to start thinking of them more artistically, and then a few dozen NES and PC games of the 80's that legitimized gaming as an art form. I don't know why Sony thinks they had anything to do with any of this. Pac-Man was bigger than any game Sony ever made.
