Pong Essays

Atari—anyone over the age of forty will immediately be flooded with images of Pong. The simplest graphic ever made into a video game—a line and a ball. This was the first major gaming console to hit the market in 1976. From 1975 to 1977 Magnavox created a series of home gaming consoles called Odyssey being the first of it’s kind in the market. In 1976 Coleco introduced the Telstar, the first of 14 different consoles made by Coleco. In 1977 Bally released Astrocade, and quickly left the market for

it was a beginning of a new era. when the new Intel 4004 microprocessor came out so did the ideas of how to put it to use such as the hand held calculators, video gaming . Thanks to Intel we have video games in the 70s such as tennis for two and pong. (which was created by Atari, but Atari was originally just a training exercise. ) Hand held calculators are a new invention now and allows the user to fit one in their pockets. The microprocessor was being integrated into what would be

Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron is a short story published in 1961 that I would describe as having the theme of futuristic-science-fiction. The short is set in the year 2081 where in the United States new amendments to the constitution has equalized all humans. Although, the author does not mention how this dystopia came to be and if the rest of the world has equalized all human beings, it is clear to me that in this dystopia, equality is an illusion, equality is not real. As I read this short

Dogs in Space is an Australian movie shot in 1987, and is focused on a group of outcasts in their early 20’s. They all share the same house, and have vastly different personalities. The main character is Sam, who is the singer of the punk band Dogs in Space, and is also in a relationship with one of the other main characters, Anna. Anna and Sam do not have too much in common at first. Anna has a job, is usually well dressed, and originally steered clear of drugs. Sam, on the other hand, is always

Although going through hardships may not necessarily be the most positive experience, the lessons people learn from the obstacles everyone goes through can be significantly fundamental to later success. I have been particularly fortunate in that I have not had to undergo substantial privations. One setback that will always be ingrained in my memory is a soccer game that I was playing during my freshman year of high school. It was the beginning of the year and I was transitioning from a big-bad eighth

“We have the ability to project ourselves into just about anything we control.” [J.Schell, 2008] Galaga is a Japanese shoot ‘em up arcade game that was released in 1981, developed and published by Namco [Japan] and by Midway in North America. The following is my analysis and experience having played/studied the game under the headings: story, technology, aesthetics, and mechanics. Story “We filter reality through our sense, and through our minds, and the consciousness we actually experience is a

attempting to play ping pong by themselves. They 've seen the superstar players, paddling along at light speed with gleaming smiles of accomplishment on their faces, however, it is a feeling these lonely individuals will never experience. Ping pong friends are harder to come by than cheap cocaine. Fortunately, one startup has a solution and friends aren 't even needed. Grab your Apple iPhone and prepare for these five reasons why your life is about to change. 1. SMART PING PONG ROBOT FOR APPLE IPHONE

of my friends and I to play beer pong at his house. Beer pong is very serious for a couple of us because we play tournaments for money and are actually pretty good at it. I’m always the best shit talker on the table as well. Back to the point, he would invite us but his girlfriend would be there as well and he would still try to flirt. After countless rejections over time we just kept close because he was just so easy to talk to and he we would be playing beer pong almost every weekend so we were

group is to design a ping pong ball launcher. The launcher needs to be scheduled to launch one solo ping pong ball one at a time over a set obstacle and into a bucket of a chosen diameter. The determination is for the launcher to have the capability to launch five ping pong balls one at a time into the container within one minute, having none of the ping pong balls bounce out or miss the bucket. The launcher can be made out of any matter preferred and can launch the ping pong ball in any anticipated

Back in 8th Grade, there is a car contest in my physics class. Which is to built a car that uses the balloon as the engine, and see who’s car can travel farthest distance. Like usual, I am so excited when I heard the contest, I want to win! Once I heard the contest, i begin to draw all my ideas I had to build the car. My first idea is to use big plastic plates to build the wheels. I taped the back of two plates together which is a wheel of the car, and used sticks to connect all four wheels, then

colorful room. I sat down in a chair to the right of Ping-Pong. He looked at me with bloodshot eyes and heaved a heavy sigh. “Uh-oh, someone is a little pouty,” he said. “Would you like some breakfast?” I nodded and scooted a little farther away from him because, if there was one thing I had learned while watching nearly every episode of The Rockford Files, it was how to tell when someone had been hitting the happy sauce. If Mr. Ping-Pong was a stranger to liquor, I was the Queen of England. “Madison

Today argument still surrounds the issue of the first person to play a tune on the pan. Some say that Victor "Totie' Wilson of Alexander's Ragtime Band is alleged, isolated four notes of different pitch on the ping pong and tuned his four notes to the chimes of the QRC clock. The ping pong was an instrument; a small hand held pan that was cut from a paint tin or carbide container. The indentations made by striking it with wooden sticks, were pushed upwards to form small bumps, which were then tuned

that was intentionally changed, were the types of balls. The distance each ball rolled is the dependent variable. The experimental group includes the soccer ball, the basketball, the tennis ball, the golf ball, the marble, the baseball, and the ping pong ball. The soccer ball’s distance is the control group. Some of the control variables are the angle of the ramp, the surface of the ramp, and the surface of the ground. Some important procedures for this experiment is to roll each

photographic evidence of the risk liability. There had also been complaints from the students about the potential hazard. The injuries likely to happen in this case scenario include injuries of body parts such as eyes, face, and back sustained by the ping pong players and passersby. Consequences of this risk liability may include the occurrence of subsequent risks such as ethical injuries that may occur due to the room losing goodwill from the students. According to American Sports Data Inc, sports injuries

when they take part in the Vietnam war as a soldier. Their pluton gets attacked by Vietnamese. He gets shot in the butt. He saves Lt. Dan and many others, and gets Medal of Honor by the president. In the hospital he plays ping pong. He even gets to represent USA in the pig pong world Championship in the China. When he is retired from the military, he buys a shrimping boat as he promised Bubba. Lt. Dan joins him. At the end they makes a lot of money out of shrimping boat. On day he decides to go for

Erik Holden, and Josh Peeples Introduction: For this lab we had to construct a projectiles launcher that would shoot ping pong balls at different distances. At the beginning of the project we though of doing a generic catapult made of popsicle sticks. But we wanted to go above and beyond. So we decided to make a launcher that would use air pressure to power the ping pong ball. Which started our process through the scientific method. We first started our research by thinking of different ways to

Purpose: To determine whether a golf ball, tennis ball, or ping pong ball has the highest rebound bounce height when dropped from specified points 2 meters and below. Materials and Equipment: 2 Meter sticks Tennis ball Ping pong ball Golf ball Flat surface Procedure: Have one group member hold up the two meter sticks on the flat surface, one on top of the other, so that they reach 2 meters in the air. The next partner should drop ball 1 from the 2 meter mark. The last partner should measure how

loved games like “pong”. Bushnell worked at a pinball arcade to pay for his studies, and this is where his inspiration to put computer games into an arcade format originated. His first attempt at launching an arcade game called ‘computer space’ was not met with great success. Bushnell attributed the failure in part to the fact that it was the world’s first arcade game but also

Analysis of Drinking Games Drinking games are a staple in the college and high school party scenes. According to The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction, folklore differentiates among each culture and even from person to person (33). This is absolutely found true when considering the passing of drinking games. Drinking games are preformed folklore and the passing of rules is almost always oral leaving room for interpretation and change. It is rare that two different folk groups will adhere

though some games could be played on the earliest of game councils and PCs. Children and teenagers flocked to this new type of entertainment, playing for hours a day to try to reach new high scores and compete with others. Simple arcade games like Pong, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man laid the groundwork and were able to help launch the video game industry into what it is