This is the forty-eighth post in our Game of the Day series.
Submitter writes:
The game with the ball and the two opposing bars that you have to use to hit the ball from one side to the other. Although not a very complex game, my fondest memory was that it was a way for my brother and I to escape our parents' fighting and our own fighting.
And a fad-watcher submits:
Yes, I am ancient and I remember when Pong was first sold. Pong was the first video game connected to a television. Neighborhood kids would flock to the houses that had Pong. Pong was ridiculuously simple. Pong was also a very primitive game. However, since there was no other game for comparison, Pong was the first fad. To this day, I compare the release of other games to the fad the Pong created. It is actually a good way to measure the intensity of a video game fad.
Here's a video of the original Pong (how exciting!):
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkUvfL8T1I]
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