It's the arcade classic Pong, except now there's stages and each one offers a unique gimmick to contend with while duking it out with a CPU or a friend! Sadly, the game gets super hard super quick, making going against the computer to unlock more stages really tough. Each stage also has different phases to challenge, with each one offering a new twist on whatever the initial gimmick was.

Overall, it's a punishing Pong experience. Unless you consider yourself a Pong pro, I don't think you'll have much fun here.

Fun fact about the PS1 version of the game: This is one of those games that doubles as an audio CD. While the game does have a fun soundtrack, that is not what you get when you put it in a music player. You get the main theme, but you also get a bunch of ambient sounds for some reason. Weird.

When I cry IRL I lowkey secretly try to sound like the pong paddles when you lose a match.

Brutally difficult PONG-like. Has nice variety like in some of those stages the gameplay is so far removed from the basic pong gameplay that it makes you think this is more like a minigame collection.

Anyways this game is HARD to complete 100% truly the darksoul of all pongs.

This has 4 Player Mode which can be fun but there are better 4 Player games on the PS1. Still one of the better ones I have played though