Multi-Pong via iPhone, iTouch…… Dammit…

It’s hard to believe that videogaming made some of it’s first strides recreating two paddles and a squarish ball bouncing back and forth; and yet, here we all sit, writing, enjoying and wasting our days with the children of that simplistic pastime. Fucking Pong, man!

Now recreating that hoary old thing isn’t new, in fact it seems that every year someone ports either Pong or Space Invaders to yet another wacky device; whether it be lightshows on windows, MRI machines or that little LCD window on printers. Chances are, if it is programmable and has a screen, someone is currently writing a version of Pong for it. Hey, we get it, you like fucking Pong. You luuuuuurve it even. But, the beast with two paddles cannot be stopped, and has added MOAR to its wily tricks. Best part? Took the guy like an hour to do so.

Get this -well if you own an iTouch or iPhone at least- some Japanese dudes, yeah I went there, came up with a program that allows 3 or more people to play Pong. Crazy right? Look at that fucker go! It will bounce from screen to screen based on the way the phone faces, so you can turn the screen to bounce to another. I have to wonder if you could chain it along, from phone to phone or if there’s a set amount of varieties. ‘Course I don’t OWN an iPhone and I daresay I’ll never be able to afford one, but maybe Jango’s wife can download all this and brag about it.

Looks like the site went down, so I’m assuming someone on Digg discovered this.

[Asiajin via Gizmodo]

- Tenno

Posted by Tenno