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Pong with a twist

Robin Parrish — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:53:41 +0000

Remember Pong? It was pretty much the first video game like, ever.

A company called Hype For Type has updated the classic game for the iPhone, with a clever twist. Meet TypePong: it works just like the original, only now, your paddle is a letter from a font. And you can choose your font for your paddle. Check out the trailer, it says it all:

TypePong is available to download in the App Store for $.99.

Tabletop Pong: turning a classic video game into reality

andy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:55 +0000

What happens when you try to turn the classic arcade game PONG into a real life tabletop game?

Evil Mad Scientist has done just that and come up with Tabletop Pong.

It’s a definite work in progress, but you can read the fascinating journey including photos and descriptions of the construction process.

Check out the video of it in action:

Obviously, some real world elements have crept in to the design — because the table isn’t quite level gravity takes its toll on the ball. Perhaps this makes the game even more playable (or fun, at least)?

In order to keep the ball moving (or to encourage it along) the paddles are powered and can detect when the ball has hit them. The play area is acrylic and the walls are beryllium copper finger strips which help the ball to bounce.

I definitely want one of these!

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Pong: Retro video game meets latest browser technology

andy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:59:49 +0000

There have been plenty of implementations of Pong over the years, given how long this retro video game has been around and how popular this simple content still is.

Playing Flash versions in a browser window is old hat, so how about using the browser windows themselves as the ball and bats?

That’s what the developers at stewdio.org have done.

Browser Pong has been written to take advantage of the latest HTML 5 specification, which is why it doesn’t work in standards-mashers like Internet Explorer.

Graphically advanced it’s not, though if you fancy cheating it’s pretty easy — just expand one of the “bat” browser windows fully vertically. Easy.

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Incredible "history" of retro video games

andy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:59 +0000

Do you know how Tetris, Arkanoid, Pong, Super Mario and Sonic were created?

Amusement Magazine has the answer, it seems, with some stunning high resolution imagery of the fixtures and fittings required for each game.

Here we have Tetris’ bricks, Arkanoid’s steel balls, Pong’s racquets and score digits, Super Mario’s mushroom and Sonic’s rings.

Read the stories of bricks and balls imported from Russia and East Berlin, mushroom farms and Japanese metal foundries.

Forget everything you thought you knew about these video games. The truth is now out. Check out the original hi-res photos.