-History of PONG- (Instructions are below) Atari founder Nolan Bushnell conceived the idea of a video version of Ping-Pong in 1972 and assigned engineer Allan Alcorn to create it. Within several months, Alcorn developed a prototype for a coin-operated arcade version so engaging that users testing it in a neighborhood bar filled its coin box to overflowing. Soon Atari had tens of thousands of copies of the game in restaurants and bars all over the country. The arcade era of video games had begun. The Strong’s Atari Coin-Op Division corporate records In 1975, Atari used the Sears Catalog to introduce a home version just as easy to understand and fun to play as the coin-operated arcade machine. Home Pong became the hot Christmas gift, selling hundreds of thousands of copies, introducing millions of children to video games, and transforming the TV from a passive medium into an interactive plaything. Decades later, Pong’s iconic sound, intuitive controls, and satisfying game play still resonate, inviting people to try their hand at keeping the ball bouncing as long as possible (and also code remakes of it in Scratch!) -Instructions- 2-player mode: ❯❯ "ball speed" = how fast the ball goes (obviously) ❯❯ player 1: [W] and [S] ❯❯ player 2: [▲] and [▼] ❯❯ first to 5 points wins CPU/1-player mode: ❯❯ choose the difficulty (easy, medium, hard or impossible) ❯❯ you're on the left ❯❯ [W] and [S] to control your paddle ❯❯ first to five points wins -Notes- ❯❯ sorry this took such a long time! (I'm a world-class procrastinator) ❯❯ I have never beaten the impossible CPU (and neither have any of the testers!) ❯❯ enjoy :) -Credits- ❯❯ fonts used: "pixel" ❯❯ beta testers: irl friends I'll protect the privacy of by not sharing their names with you guys (even though y'all are awesome) ❯❯ music by @-xaf- ❯❯ all coding and art was made by me ❯❯ major inspo from the original PONG game ❯❯ history of pong from this website: https://www.museumofplay.org/games/pong/
