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Re: Pong @ 40
03/09/12 09:00 AM
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/05/pong_anniversary_al_alcorn/
>on a board programmed using discrete logic was easy to knock off. Soon, boards were
>coming from Chicoin [Chicago Coin], Meadows and Ramtek with even Bally offering its own
>Pong, called Pong Playtime.
Nice article, but also maybe (hastily written?) at last moment regarding various competing pong clone games. It was Midway that started with Winner and then marketed Playtime sometime in 1974. Winner is almost a pong duplicate, but it also included a timer feature where a cab operator could set play at a fixed amount of time instead of allowing game to fully conclude at 11 or 15.
Midway Playtime could be considered a second generation of pong in which players could move paddle 360 degrees around the screen with a joystick compared to original pong control knobs limited at only moving paddle vertically [up or down].
Midway's Playtime market competition was with Meadows' popular second generation pong type game of Flim Flam.
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