My thoughts are going to jump all over the place on this one, and I apologize for that in advance. But as you shall soon see, this is absolutely necessary, because of the following:
- The history surrounding the granddaddy of video games is rich and some of the most important gaming lore you can expose yourself to.
- The game itself is stupid simple.
This dictates we’ll spend less time on the game itself and more on its context, which I think is appropriate.
So buckle up for a trip through the earliest EARLIEST days of video game history, a crap-ton of Atari trivia, a significant tangent into Breakout, and oh yeah, even some discussion of the game in the headline itself.
This, my friends, is “Pong.”
Continue reading Pong — Retro Gaming Essentials (No. 38)Pong at a glance:
Genre: Twitch arcade game
Released: 1972
Platform: Arcade
No. 34 on Next Generation’s Top 50 Games of All Time