Atari 2600 doesn't allow for very expansive games, yet a lot of games tried to be what they couldnt be. Pong is not like that. Simple to the point: You are defending your wall by hitting the ball. That is the whole game, and it works great. Whenever I see people wanting more and more in videogames, I show them Pong to remind them that sometimes, less really is more.
ENG: It is not the first game in history, but it is the first to be a commercial and even cultural success. It deserved it, since it proved that with so little you can do so much. So much as to give rise to a new audiovisual medium whose bases were established in interaction. We owe him a lot.
ESP: No es el primer juego de la historia, pero si es el primero en ser un éxito comercial e incluso cultural. Merecido lo tiene, puesto que demostró que con tan poco se puede hacer tanto. Tanto como dar pie a un nuevo medio audiovisual cuyas bases se establecían en la interacción. Le debemos mucho.
ESP: No es el primer juego de la historia, pero si es el primero en ser un éxito comercial e incluso cultural. Merecido lo tiene, puesto que demostró que con tan poco se puede hacer tanto. Tanto como dar pie a un nuevo medio audiovisual cuyas bases se establecían en la interacción. Le debemos mucho.
I am literally a wh*te rectangle.
Anyways. Jokes aside. Pong is such an interesting game. On the surface, it’s just you and the computer playing Ping Pong. You and the computer are moving white objects that can bounce a white square from one side to the other. They can be moved to the adjustment of the controller. You and the computer will go on and on and on until one of you makes a slip and the other gets a point. This keeps going until one of you gets 11 points. Then, the game is over. You must now input another 25 cents, or a quarter, into the Arcade machine so you can play again. It’s so simple. You can even play Pong with a friend. But I don’t think any of us have any real friends in this day and age so that idea is just completely out of the question. And even if you do have any real friends these days, I don’t think they will be willing to be playing a near 50 year old game with you instead of the latest first person shooter or party game. Pong is just a simple game yet so brilliant. Just rating this game is completely unnecessary. It’s just too important. Without it, I wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t be here. No one would be here. It’s like rating water. That’s how important this computerized version of ping pong is.
Anyways. Jokes aside. Pong is such an interesting game. On the surface, it’s just you and the computer playing Ping Pong. You and the computer are moving white objects that can bounce a white square from one side to the other. They can be moved to the adjustment of the controller. You and the computer will go on and on and on until one of you makes a slip and the other gets a point. This keeps going until one of you gets 11 points. Then, the game is over. You must now input another 25 cents, or a quarter, into the Arcade machine so you can play again. It’s so simple. You can even play Pong with a friend. But I don’t think any of us have any real friends in this day and age so that idea is just completely out of the question. And even if you do have any real friends these days, I don’t think they will be willing to be playing a near 50 year old game with you instead of the latest first person shooter or party game. Pong is just a simple game yet so brilliant. Just rating this game is completely unnecessary. It’s just too important. Without it, I wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t be here. No one would be here. It’s like rating water. That’s how important this computerized version of ping pong is.
It's just Pong. There's no intelligence to it, it's just an abstracted match of ping-pong suited for accessibility, but is a step above computer chess matches in the sense it's a dynamic action game with hit detection and an open invitation to engagement. It doesn't have an AI sadly, so the enjoyment you'll get from it(which still holds, BTW), is dependent from your friend playing. There's even a MAME variant out, so try it out for novelty reasons.
(Glitchwave project #001)
(Glitchwave project #001)