Pong

Video games have a wide range of characters that are unique and diverse. Some characters are similar to others while others are more unique. A game’s characters can be any race or either gender that the creator 's desire. Sometimes the character’s gender may affect how they are written and sometimes there gender doesn’t matter to the story at all. Many early video game characters were basic and written with a very short back story. They’re weren’t many playable female video game characters.…

The years of the 1970’s is famous for the groovy bell-bottoms, the rise of disco and how could anyone forget, the invention of video games. However, it wasn’t all fun and games. It was an era of economic struggle and cultural change. Many American groups fought for social and political rights, one being a combat for women rights. Women are being objectified by men and politics. They did not have the right to vote, to hold public office, to have reproductive rights, to work or to have fair wages,…

Marble Madness is a maze game which is designed by Mark Cerny for 1 or 2 players. In designing the game, Mark Cerny had an inspiration from miniature golf and racing golf. This game was published by Atari Game in 1984. The game was commercially successful during the period. In the game, Players have to control the marble to reach the goal before time runs out. The marble can move around walkways, ramps and other obstacles. There are different kinds of obstacles in the game, such as the other…

history of beer pong and it appears that everyone comes back to some particular fraternity or college. The modern day beer pong was invented in almost every small liberal arts college up and down the East Coast. To think, some college kids just considering entertaining themselves when it was subzero outside decided to invent a drinking game to play inside. What a groundbreaking invention! According to the “Book of Beer Pong”, which is the absolute source for any kind of research, beer pong…

Many restrictions on travel and trade were lifted. This would become know as “Ping Pong” diplomacy. It was so named after the United States ping-pong team was invited to the Chinese capital in April of 1971. During their visit the group was treated as though they were dignitaries or royalty. They played matches against the Chinese team but also visited important landmarks through out China. The American delegation was accompanied by members of the press and was closely watched by the American…

In 1971 an engineer at Nutting Associates by the name of Nolan Bushnell created Computer Space, the first ever commercial video game. One year later he created Pong, the first commercial video game to be widely successful. Since then, video games have erupted in popularity and evolved from incredibly simple gameplay and graphics to complex systems running near-realistic graphics. Many of these changes only became possible as the hardware they ran on became more powerful. As time progressed,…

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The House of Creepy Mr. Ping-Pong I sat on the floor doused in yellow liquid moonlight mingled with shadows, waiting. But for what? A chance to escape? The window was hopeless—small and too high for me to reach. For someone to rescue me? That was unlikely to happen. No one knew where I was. I’m trapped, I thought. In silence—ensnared by insatiable psychos. The door creaked open, and standing in front of me was a tall, muscular man with spiked hair and a smile that was all top…

In Jennifer Phang’s 2015 film “Advantageous,” she takes us into the not-so-distant future, in a major American city characterized by unsettling, and in some cases terrifying, dystopian visions. In this visually opulent, but curiously empty city, Phang suggests a future where women are becoming sterile from environmental and psychological stress; children are homeless and prostituted; and everyone ruthlessly calculates how to secure a future for themselves and their children by scrabbling to the…

significant ex-husband, but nothing alarming. That all changed with “Pizzagate,” a political scandal surrounding his pizzeria, Comet Ping Pong. At first glance, Comet Pizza is nothing special. It is described as a “hipster-heavy pizza parlor in the Upper Northwest with rough concrete walls, bathrooms hidden behind secret panels, and table tennis galore” (qtd. in Comet Ping Pong), but Comet Pizza has been through incredible controversy, a controversy that was completely fabricated. Yet, it grew…

Ping. Pong. Ping. Pong, Whack! This is what someone would hear if they came into my basement while I had a friend over. Table tennis, in my opinion, is the easiest of the fun sports. No running, no jumping, and all spectacularly granted with being indoors. The reason I love ping pong is because it allows me to use my hands. Nearly any activity I like to do involves using my hands. Whether it's solving a Rubik’s cube as quickly as possible, or putting a computer together piece by piece. My left…