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A remake of the classic, the original, the great TV Tennis or "Pong" in which you play in a game of "ping pong", manipulating the paddle back and forth to aim to ball and striking the ball towards an opening on your opponents side. Score if your opponent fails to return it but be careful! If a rally develops, the game will gets faster and faster!
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Goal/ObjectiveiDT Pong follows the original basis for Pong, control a paddle which you move up and down on the screen with the aim of deflecting the ball in such a way that it doesn't collide with your side of the screen. If it does, your opponent gains a point, if the ball strikes your opponents side, you gain a point. Play continues until a player reaches 5 points. That player is declared the winner.How to PlayThe paddle can only move up or down. Please note that when the "Alternative" controls are selected from within the game's main menu, the control scheme shown below is effectively reversed where Player 1 uses the arrow key arrangement and Player 2 uses the WSAD key arrangement.During gameplay, you can influence the direction the ball takes after colliding with your paddle, by moving the paddle in the direction you wish the ball to travel in after the collision. This will take some degree of timing as the ball can move pretty fast! Controls
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Pong History | |||||||||||||||
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Key notes of interest taken from Wikipedia articles relating to Pong, shown below are not quotes, nor is the Imagination Works responsible for insuring the accuracy of afformentioned information
Pong is considered a first generation video game (that is a period from the mid to late-1970's) that is, contrary to what many think, not the first video arcade game. While it fails to capture this title, Pong's legacy in many ways is a reflection on the rapid advance in technology, particularly in video games. Originally released as a coin-op arcade game in 1972, future editions right up to recent 3D versions spanned numerous consoles and gaming platforms, spawning copy-cats and sequals. Why make another? It's difficult to build a classic game library for a PC desktop package such as iDT and not offer some incarnation of Pong. From a programming stand-point, Pong is not conceptually as difficult as most modern games and using multimedia and game authoring packages such as Multimedia Fusion allowed this version of Pong to be developed in a matter of days. While it offers multiple skill levels as well as a two-player mode, iDT Pong is designed for simplicity only, to conform to the underlying intention of iDT to be a way to "kill some time". After all, who hasn't fired up many games of Solitaire when there's nothing better to play? References
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