Plook, plook, plook, @%#?!, start over... The beginning of an empire.

User Rating: 10 | Pong ARC
By Lokar | Review Date:
This devilishly simple game-- two white sticks moving up and down on opposite sides of the screen, tapping a little white ball between them-- was effectively the beginning of the video game revolution. Make a bank shot and the flight speed of the ball would jump. If it went off the screen, you lost the point. It didn't look much like real tennis or ping-pong. It didn't look much like anything. Still, it was the catalyst for countless kids to start pumping quarters into arcade machines, and later on, for the same people to buy home consoles with those dial paddles so you could challenge your brother.

And so your brother could soundly defeat you, time after humiliating time.

Which has no effect on my score for the game, really.

Pong had no graphics to speak of, no other levels and nothing really happening except you trying to win.

And that was more than enough.

Bless you, Pong, down to the tips of your toes.

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