By the time I was first introduced to video games Atari’s Java-based game PONG was already over a decade old. It was the simplest of games but fun on so many levels—bringing the competitive nature out of anyone. I remember playing it for hours at a time at my cousin’s house. Looking at it now it’s absolutely comical, but 25 years ago it was still going strong as video game/graphics innovation (well, at least to me). I was amazed at the gameplay, the seamless joystick reaction, and the blips and bloops that rang competition in all its analog glory. PONG stopped time long enough for players to get their immersion fix. Today, we still get our fix. Today, we have new kinds of “Pongs.” Okay, maybe it was just a lazy person’s table tennis, but it was cool. Long live cool things—past, present, future.
Get a mini PONG fix here:
http://www.xnet.se/javaTest/jPong/jPong.html/
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