Video Game Eras, Round 1: Opinion of PONG

[Mr. Smith]

Since PONG was the first superstar video game, we'll start here.

Yes, there was a console right before it (RIP Ralph Baer), but it didn't do so hot, and in many ways, it was an electronic board game anyway.

So yeah, start here.

Because it's so old, I have two FG options, one for the Grumps and Tories and mathstatmans and muon2s if that's what they think, and one for the rest of us who only have the history to go off and ramblings our folks could give. HG seems universal enough. Opt. 4's also quite self-explanatory

The next round will be even more appropriate given it celebrates the 40th anniversary of one certain icon...but that's next round.
 

[Skunk]

This seems like it'd be interesting.

Voted FF for the historical significance, haven't really played Pong too much on its own.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Option 2.

[FairBol]

One of the two most classic games in video game history, IMHO (along with Super Mario Brothers). 

[Santander]

One of the two most classic games in video game history, IMHO (along with Super Mario Brothers). 

Nah, that would be Rogue and Wolfenstein 3D.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Slightly before my time. Never played PONG itself, but played clones made for the next generation of video games.

[Mr. Smith]

1 day left.

[dead0man]

It was a little before my time.  I don't think I ever played the original standalone console.  The Atari 2600 had several versions, including one called Pong.  What was the Olympics one?  Good Og you had to have some serious imagination skills to play games back then.


Video Olympics

[AN63093]

Do you mean the actual pong console, or the Atari era in general?

Anyways, I voted "Freedom Game, because where would we be without it?"

I was born around Atari's peak, so too young to remember it, though our family had a pong console and a 2600.  But they never got much attention such we had gotten a NES, and if you had one of those, the Atari was quickly forgotten.  Some of my earliest memories as a kid were playing the NES with my brothers and the Atari just seemed so primitive in comparison.

So pong doesn't really "take me back" per se, but it's still a FF as you have to recognize the historical importance.

[Mr. Smith]

Not a single person doesn't know about it, and the opinion is unanimously positive. This is a first.