Pong
See also: pong
English
Etymology
Marketing coinage, from ping-pong.
Proper noun
Pong
- (video games) An early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.
- 2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows game programming gurus, page 10:
- A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich!
- 2003 March 1, “Gulf War 2.0: The Son Strikes Back”, in Toronto Star:
- If the US invades Iraq, we'll see action all right, much more than we witnessed with the primitive Pong-ish effects delivered during Gulf War 1.0,
- 2006, Chris Kohler, Retro gaming hacks, page 10:
- The paddle controllers are necessary for playing Pong-style contests, and since two paddles share one controller input you can easily play doubles Pong with an extra set of paddles.
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