iPong - multi-player Pong for the iPhone, iPod Touch
May 30th, 2008
It’s a quick proof-of-concept game, apparently made in less than an hour, but these guys seem really amused…
“Pong! *laughs*”
Click through for a video of the game in action.
Pong
Gaming slot machines the future of gambling
December 12th, 2007
A report in the New York Times has pointed to a looming overlap of gaming and slot machine design. Rob Bone, marketing director for WMS Gaming had this to say about the future of slot machine gambling:
“We can’t just make a slot thinking about the 55-year-old lady who comes to the casino a few times a month. We need to appeal to new buckets of players, or we’ll die.”
Slot manufacturer Bally Technologies has signed a deal with Atari to produce Pong and Breakout style slot games to further pull in the masses. Many of the games will be mulitplayer to emulate the sense of community that people feel while playing games like poker. If you think you are going to go out there and clean up with your leet gamer skills think again, as skill will only get you so far - the machines are still designed to take more than they give.
I hope it is the 55-year-old ladies that embrace these machines. Maybe a move to a more interactive form of gambling could stave off at least some of the problems chronic slot junkies face. Even this level of mental stimulation might ward off Alzheimer’s in some cases.
via Joystiq
Stylish Pong and Tetris Forever watches
November 30th, 2007
If you are like me and don’t really like to wear a watch, maybe these beauties will change your mind as they did mine. Nixon are currently developing prototypes of a Tetris and Pong watch, and there is talk that they might be making it to production very soon. The hardest part now (apart from the wait) will be deciding which model you want. More pics after the jump.
The PainStation brings pain to Pong
September 25th, 2007
Ever thought that video games would be more fun if they inflicted pain on the loser? Thanks to Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, therapy is no longer your only option.
While PainStation is based on Pong, which should need no explanation, the additions certainly do. Players place their left hand on a Pain Execution Unit and their right hand on the controls. Pain Inflictor Symbols are randomly placed on the playing field, and are activated when the ball hits them, inflicting different types of hurt on the player who next misses the ball.
Classic Pong arcade machine on eBay
September 6th, 2007
It must make a collector’s blood boil when a rare item in fantastic condition ends up on eBay, gets spotted by a blogger with no intention of purchasing it, and subsequently does the rounds of the entire internet.
Oh well.
The pictured item is a Pong machine manufactured in 1973, before Atari was called Atari. The bid is currently at US $305, with over a week left until the auction finishes.
eBay via Gaming Today
