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| marvelvscapcom2:
Hello Everyone :D. I am not sure if anyone knows of a really amazing pong collection or pong game for a post 1990s console. :D. It almost seems like their was the huge surge of Pong consoles and pong for Atari and everyone was a pong fanatic in the late 70s and earlyy 80s and then all of a sudden gaming just forgot about pong and left it in the 70s to die. A lot of the trends from the 70s got revitalized one way or another, like pinball and things. Most other gaming staples that sell that well always get a second go. It really confuses me why people forgot about our friend pong. I hope someone can please let me know of a modern pong console so i can back it or buy it :). I know a lot of more complex games came that were way more eye catching and flashy for the youth. and sure mario was so much more intricate and had more depth but a lot of us still love tetris and all these other simple party play quick fun type games. A NES release of pong never came, SNES pong never came. Then PS1 has a pong but it wasn't promoted well and the youth had already forgotten about the legendary staple of pong. :( I love pong a lot, it's so fun and it has so much potential to be even funner. It's an 8 bit atari 2600 game that can actually be binged in 2017 by most gamers. Imagine adding trophies, special metal knob controllers, tournamnets, online face offs, rumble feedback, power ups, mini games. it would be sooo fun and unique :D. i think when we discuss gaming staples we should always have pong somewhere. It made bringing games home cool. It's so simple yet so fun. It had so much potential to carry over and become a legend but now it's kinda like the "Member when we used to play pong" type game. We should be playing pong now :). Why do you feel pong didn't survive the linear progression of gaming. Do you think pong will ever make it's remarkable return? :D |
| indenton:
You make a good point here. We hear a bunch of reinventions of some really old IPs, Pac-Man got Championship Edition 2 late last year. Puyo Puyo Tetris just speaks for itself. But that Pong on PlayStation is the only later iteration of Pong that I've heard of, regardless I've heard it's a pretty good game as well. |
| maximo310:
The main problem was every company back in the day made pong clones, which killed interest in the game within 2-3 years ( similar to Space Invaders) bc of an oversaturated market. That being said, considering how simplistic pong is even compared to something like pac-man, you'd need to invest a bunch of changes in order to make it marketable for the modern era. Besides, just play windjammers. It's pong on steroids. |
| badATchaos:
Wii Sports? |
| indenton:
--- Quote from: badATchaos on May 22, 2017, 02:31:40 am ---Wii Sports? --- End quote --- No no, it was Wii Play, it DID have a Pong game! EDIT: It was laser hockey but they're pretty similar |
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