THE GAMING CUP: January 2025

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

10. Bong

ORIGINAL: Pong was based on a game called "Tennis for Two" which simulates playing tennis on an oscilloscope. Physicist William Higginbotham goes down in history as creating one of the first electronic games to use graphical displays.

Concept: The game aims to represent the game of tennis or table tennis (ping pong). Each player has a bat. The bat can be moved vertically. There are two horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the screen. The ball is served and passed to a player - that player must move the paddle to hit the ball. The ball bounces in the opposite direction. Depending on where the ball hits the bat, the ball will move in different directions - if it hits one of the top or bottom lines, it will bounce. The idea is to make the other player lose the ball - thus scoring a point.

Top 5 contorted, yet fun rounds ever

I've been a video gamer since growing up as a kid (back in the 1980s), my first game system was the classic NES, and I've played a lot of different games since then. These games include Battle toads, Super Mario Bros, Sonic, Mega Man, first-person shooter games, roleplaying games, online games (such as Adventure Quest), and many other hit games. Of course, I've also played a lot of Twisted games and some of them are surprisingly fun, humorous, and sometimes even popular, and in this article, I'll be talking about at least 5 of them.