I played the closest iteration I could find at ponggame.org. What can you say? It's Pong. While I will almost always give versions of Tetris a ten due to ramp ups in difficulty, scoring systems, the need for strategy, music, etc., Pong is about as bare bones as you can be and you'll still have a good time.
Ok, I know you can't rate older games objectively. But it's my log so I can do whatever I want.
The game is simple: it's pong. You can spend 15 minutes of your life to touch the history but don't expect anything fascinating
The game is simple: it's pong. You can spend 15 minutes of your life to touch the history but don't expect anything fascinating
O primeiro de todos né, e não envelheceu tão mal quanto outros tantos jogos.
Nota: 7/10 (★★★☆) - Bom
Nota: 7/10 (★★★☆) - Bom
Played briefly using the overpriced Atari Mini Pong Jr. plug & play that I bought out of impulse. The moment of realization that I bought a Pong plug & play was so sobering that I ended up selling half my game collection later that year. Buying a stupid thing like that and immediately regretting it is something every young person with financial freedom needs to experience.
Oh, uh, Pong itself. It's table tennis with simplified physics, and it might not look like much, but it helped jumpstart the video game industry. It's not a game I intend to return to, but I can respect its place in history, and you should, too.
Oh, uh, Pong itself. It's table tennis with simplified physics, and it might not look like much, but it helped jumpstart the video game industry. It's not a game I intend to return to, but I can respect its place in history, and you should, too.
Esse jogo é com certeza pong
You can't get simpler than this. Even I(a chronic idiot) can code this up in twenty minutes with my basic knowledge of Java. And it just works. This version in particular has nothing special about it, altough it looks sleek.
9/10 simple and fun, atleast for a few minutes.
9/10 simple and fun, atleast for a few minutes.
Rating this is dumb and anything that could be said about this game save for historical purposes is equally dumb honestly.
Okay let me explain why: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU RATE SOMETHING THAT WAS THE FIRST ONE, IF THERE IS NOTHING TO COMPARE IT WHEN IT WAS CREATED????? In any case this should be used by the standard by it's own nature, otherwise you're just making a very subjective decision that is based on retroactively rating something, which is bad practice even among casual activities cuz that means you can just punish yourself over past mistakes you didn't have a way to know how to avoid, which leads to the own destruction and depression.
Stop looking at the past through the lenses of the present.
Okay let me explain why: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU RATE SOMETHING THAT WAS THE FIRST ONE, IF THERE IS NOTHING TO COMPARE IT WHEN IT WAS CREATED????? In any case this should be used by the standard by it's own nature, otherwise you're just making a very subjective decision that is based on retroactively rating something, which is bad practice even among casual activities cuz that means you can just punish yourself over past mistakes you didn't have a way to know how to avoid, which leads to the own destruction and depression.
Stop looking at the past through the lenses of the present.
Ya had to be there man.
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HCC #3 = Pong (1972)
If there is any game that can be called synonymous with video games, it's Pong. When the term "video game" was first coined, it was because the average gamer experience consisted of playing something like tennis or ping pong on their TV. It's no coincidence the term "video game" came into mass usage during the early 1970s, right when Pong exploded.
The importance of Pong cannot be overstated. Dedicated Pong consoles, arcade cabinets, Atari ports, etc all rose into prominence. The idea of porting a game a million times for accessibility, and the sheer mass appeal Pong had over prior 0 player games or text adventures? It's breathtaking how much came out of the game. Remember, just 10 years prior if one wanted to play Space War, there were only a couple locations on earth where they could do so. Pong was even designed with controllers in mind, an early prototype to things like the Atari controller and by proxy controllers by companies like Nintendo or Sega.
One could even call it the genesis point of multiplayer gaming. Being able to play against both AI and another human was beyond novel. Fighting game arcade modes? They owe their thanks to Pong. Which in hindsight, makes it funny that my first time playing Pong was via the embedded port in Mortal Kombat 2. You see, in Mortal Kombat 2 if you win 250 matches in a row, you get to play one round of pong. So one evening as a child, I spent what must have been 2 or 3 hours killing the fake player 2 in my copy of MK2, just to play Pong for 30 seconds. I felt like I had been massively trolled.
That tangent aside, I brought up mini consoles earlier. Indeed, even Nintendo got their start in the game industry with the Color TV Game 6 which was directly inspired by Pong's success. Let alone the NES Classic Mini and SNES Classic Mini some half century later.
It would be easy for me to look at Pong and go "who gives a fuck" but honestly, I can't help but admire this abstract world with nothing more than a few white pixels. Everything comes from something. Even if it's not the most fun game to a newcomer in 2024, it still has plenty of usages. After all, it's a great project to recreate in languages like GML for the sake of learning game development. In fact, a friend and I actually did that for a narrative driven minigame compilation game a while back. https://c-fhacks.itch.io/aikon
With its sheer influence on the industry, the fact it's so helpful for learning game development, and that it's perfectly playable, Pong deserves this score. Perhaps even higher.
Next time: Maze (1973)
HCC #3 = Pong (1972)
If there is any game that can be called synonymous with video games, it's Pong. When the term "video game" was first coined, it was because the average gamer experience consisted of playing something like tennis or ping pong on their TV. It's no coincidence the term "video game" came into mass usage during the early 1970s, right when Pong exploded.
The importance of Pong cannot be overstated. Dedicated Pong consoles, arcade cabinets, Atari ports, etc all rose into prominence. The idea of porting a game a million times for accessibility, and the sheer mass appeal Pong had over prior 0 player games or text adventures? It's breathtaking how much came out of the game. Remember, just 10 years prior if one wanted to play Space War, there were only a couple locations on earth where they could do so. Pong was even designed with controllers in mind, an early prototype to things like the Atari controller and by proxy controllers by companies like Nintendo or Sega.
One could even call it the genesis point of multiplayer gaming. Being able to play against both AI and another human was beyond novel. Fighting game arcade modes? They owe their thanks to Pong. Which in hindsight, makes it funny that my first time playing Pong was via the embedded port in Mortal Kombat 2. You see, in Mortal Kombat 2 if you win 250 matches in a row, you get to play one round of pong. So one evening as a child, I spent what must have been 2 or 3 hours killing the fake player 2 in my copy of MK2, just to play Pong for 30 seconds. I felt like I had been massively trolled.
That tangent aside, I brought up mini consoles earlier. Indeed, even Nintendo got their start in the game industry with the Color TV Game 6 which was directly inspired by Pong's success. Let alone the NES Classic Mini and SNES Classic Mini some half century later.
It would be easy for me to look at Pong and go "who gives a fuck" but honestly, I can't help but admire this abstract world with nothing more than a few white pixels. Everything comes from something. Even if it's not the most fun game to a newcomer in 2024, it still has plenty of usages. After all, it's a great project to recreate in languages like GML for the sake of learning game development. In fact, a friend and I actually did that for a narrative driven minigame compilation game a while back. https://c-fhacks.itch.io/aikon
With its sheer influence on the industry, the fact it's so helpful for learning game development, and that it's perfectly playable, Pong deserves this score. Perhaps even higher.
Next time: Maze (1973)
It’s pong-arific!
The ending was very emotional for me.
oldhead game. You don't see these too often anymore. What a shame.
Bloop, blip, bloop, blip, bloop, blip.
It's Pong. It works. I'm sure it blew minds 50 years ago.
It's Pong. It works. I'm sure it blew minds 50 years ago.
Recuerdo que llegué a jugarlo con mi abuelo.
This game turned me into a violent monster and I will never forgive it for that
YOOOOO ITS FUCKINGGG PONGGGGGGGG
they dont make em like they used to! no microtransactions, no dlcs, no expansions, just a masterpiece
GooeyScale: 50/100
GooeyScale: 50/100
Pong
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.
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.
Would be fire if this was 1970
This is a video game
"It's f*ckin' pong."
-Joseph Stalin
-Joseph Stalin
Very fun to play Pong. One of the few games that you could actually play with literally anyone at any time.
I won $55 off of a guy in a Pong money match
Peak
First sportsgame, first local multiplayer, quite an achievement. Judging by the low score, it is clear that people do not think or care about one of the most crucial aspect of any art form: context.
Pong
pong
For years it's been right in front of me, and I have played it many times, but... never once did I consider logging it on here.
Huh yeah, you know, I guess I CAN log this. How dare I overlook Pong. My shame is assuaged now that this relic of interactive entertainment is slotted into the annals of my finished games list.
What do I think of Pong? It's ok
Huh yeah, you know, I guess I CAN log this. How dare I overlook Pong. My shame is assuaged now that this relic of interactive entertainment is slotted into the annals of my finished games list.
What do I think of Pong? It's ok