{"id":322,"date":"2007-03-02T00:49:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T00:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=322"},"modified":"2007-03-02T00:49:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T00:49:39","slug":"the_power_of_po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"The power of Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PONG\">Pong<\/a> was one of the first video games, and it&#8217;s at least 35 years old (closer to 50 years if you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tennis_for_Two\">Tennis for Two<\/a> an early version of Pong). But even today, it inspires new variations and tributes. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albinoblacksheep.com\/flash\/curveball.php\">Curveball<\/a> is a Pong-based game that operates in three dimensions instead of two, and displays the action from a very different angle. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindqvist.com\/pong\/\">Text-Pong<\/a> shows us what Pong would be like if it were a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interactive_fiction\">text adventure<\/a> game. And then there&#8217;s this video of a Pong game that uses people as pixels:<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-yH0LHO7tcA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-yH0LHO7tcA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pong was one of the first video games, and it&#8217;s at least 35 years old. But even today, it inspires new variations and tributes.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}