Fischer500 Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Hm. Programming is HARD! I'll keep at it. I WILL make a pong of some sort. maybe... lol HEEHEE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbarius Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) Hm. I really didn't know about all those pong-ISH games, with the exception of vong. and ram pong. but really, why was there no PONG? just plain, simple PONG. y'know, like that old PONG unit thing. I don't get why it wouldn't happen lol, but I guess in way it did... hm.. I still want a normal pong 2600 game though. meh, I'll learn to program eventually. I think they saw Video Olympics as their version of Pong, and compared to the other, dedicated pong consoles it's superior, as it has more variations than any of them (although a lot of those aren't fun) and AFAIK this was the first Pong game you could play against the machine (only the simple version). Yet I don't think it was the first one to use another color scheme than white on black. Edited October 11, 2009 by Herbarius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Hm. Programming is HARD! I'll keep at it. I WILL make a pong of some sort. maybe... lol HEEHEE! Hopefully, that's not all talk. I don't think many of us would that project to end up like a certain video game project based on an 80's tv show with that black car in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fischer500 Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 Hm. Programming is HARD! I'll keep at it. I WILL make a pong of some sort. maybe... lol HEEHEE! Hopefully, that's not all talk. I don't think many of us would that project to end up like a certain video game project based on an 80's tv show with that black car in. Wait... what? I dunno, I guess I just didn't get that statement, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Hm. Programming is HARD! I'll keep at it. I WILL make a pong of some sort. maybe... lol HEEHEE! Hopefully, that's not all talk. I don't think many of us would that project to end up like a certain video game project based on an 80's tv show with that black car in. Or lost in the Red Sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laemeur Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 The Atari/Magnavox settlement was made out-of-court, so there isn't any public record about what it entailed (aside from the $700,000 cash, and Magnavox owning the rights to all Atari developments for 1976). Atari appears to have retained the Pong trademark, though, so I don't think there's anything that would have legally kept them from putting out a straight Pong cartridge. I think it has more to do with the fact that by the time the VCS launched, Pong was already five years old in the arcade, and two years old as a home game. "Pong", as a brand, was old news, and with the launch of the VCS and competing color consoles, another black-and-white pong game would have been a flop with consumers of the day ($20 for a black-and-white pong cartridge when they could buy a brand-new, color, Pong Sports IV standalone for $25?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Hopefully, that's not all talk. I don't think many of us would that project to end up like a certain video game project based on an 80's tv show with that black car in. Wait... what? I dunno, I guess I just didn't get that statement, lol. He doesn't want to see yet another video game based on . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fischer500 Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 Hm. OK, well I guess I'll have to just pretend like I understood the bit of video I watched from that. LOL, I see what he meant now. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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