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Pong has been one of the earliest arcade video games ever. The game is based on very simple two-dimensional graphics and is an initial stage to other games like table tennis. The game draft was first invented by the Atari, a videogame industry, that existed back 45 years ago. Later it was evolved by Alan Alcorn which gave it the name Pong and manufactured branded and advertised it well at the marked, as a videogame.

Pong quickly became a world-famous game and it has been called the very first commercially successful game. Just after its release, several companies copied the gameplay of Pong. No sooner almost all videogame-companies had a version of the Pong and Alan Alcorn now had to make the features of their game way better than their competitors. Alan Alcon encouraged their staff to involve even more innovative games like Pong.

There have been sold more than 35000 Pong games, like the one below, since its invention back in 1972.

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Short intro about the first encounter with the game: 

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Short intro about the first encounter with the game: 

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By going to the frontpage of Pong you will be met by a black square with white letters. You will have to choose between single player, two players, demo mode and to look at high scores for yourself and from people near by. If you press single player you will play against the computer, opposite if you press the two players button you will able to play against another, but still on your computer. Pressing demo mode, the computer will show you how the game is played and how to start, move and so on. You will also have the choice between using a mouse or the keyboard.

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Welcome to PongGame.org, In this site, you can find many free versions of the game, one of the first video games ever created.
In the game below, use the mouse or keyboard to control the paddle, Press P to pause the game, or ESC to go back to the main menu.
You can find the old flash game here

Pong is one of the first computer games that ever created, this simple "tennis like" game features two paddles and a ball, the goal is to defeat your opponent by being the first one to gain10 point, a player gets a point once the opponent misses a ball. The game can be played with two human players, or one player against a computer controlled paddle. The game was originally developed by Allan Alcorn and released in 1972 by Atari corporations. Soon, Pong became a huge success, and became the first commercially successful game, on 1975, Atari release a home edition of Pong (the first version was played on Arcade machines) which sold 150,000 units. Today, the Pong Game is considered to be the game which started the video games industry, as it proved that the video games market can produce significant revenues.

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari at 1972 in order to create games and ideas and license them to other companies for mass production. Pong was actually a training exercise for one of Atari's employees - Allan Alcorn, once it was finished, Nolan made few adjustments in order to make the game more interesting (like changing the ball's return angle) and added simple sound effects. The first Pong Arcade machine was installed on a local bar, and it was so successful that Atari decided to produce and sell the game by themselves, rather then licensing it to other companies. In 1973 the company finally got a line of credit from Wells Fargo and started an assembly line, by the end of the year, Pong arcade machines were shipped to location all over the U.S. as well as to other countries.
Similar to other famous games such as Pacman and Tetris, Pong became one of the symbols of computer gaming.

Atari sold more then 35000 Pong machines, this figure is only about one third of the total number of Pong machines that were sold globally, since many Pong clones appeared shortly after the debut of the original Atari Pong game. The way Atari chose to compete with the Pong Game clones was to produce more innovative games such as "Double Pong" which was a pong game with four players, two in every side and a bigger screen.

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Pong Game is a site dedicated to the good old pong game, you can find a few versions of the game along with basic information and history

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The playing field is shaped as a square and all of the game takes place exactly there. Two paddles are moving vertically on the flank of the square and a ball is going up and down and side to side. The aim for the players is to make the ball hit the back of their opponent's line and avoid let the ball hit their. If your opponent doesn't manage and fail to return the ball you will receive a point.
You can play one on one, online and against the computer on different levels. The players use the arrow button to make the paddles move up and down. They are moving the paddles after the ball and try making the ball go fast and away from their opponent. When the paddle hits the ball, it will bounce and go to the opponent. The winning player is the first player to reach eleven points.

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I think that the best working part of the game and the feature that works well is the small moving ball. The further place on your paddle the ball hits, the ball will go faster and more diagonal.
If I could change one thing in the game it would be the highest score you can achieve. I would like playing forhours and hours in the same game instead of going from game to game for like 7583 times.

I would also like playing multiplayer and in a bigger square. And maybe instead of a square it could be played in different polygons.

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I would prefer playing Pong above every other game because of its relevance. Who hasn't been in need of their Pong-playing skill? And because it is as simple that even I know how to play the game. I'll give it an 10/10 because I rarely have played game like that.