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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Nov 29, 1972
A modern interpretation of Atari's Breakout. The field of bricks is depicted from a slanted 3D view that allows for stacks of bricks to fill the gaps left behind by those the player destroys.
A one on one vertical Hockey game that was made by Taito released in 1994 on Arcade. Not to be confused with Slap Shot on Sega Master Systems.
A gory variation of Pong from Bloodlust Software.
Two athletes are pitted against each other in a grueling battle of special abilities, mind games, and throwing discs. It will blow you away.
Action sports game on the Super Famicom. Starring Sanrio of Hello Kitty fame in a vertical Windjammers style game.
A competitive future sports game featuring two robot crabs grabbin' balls. The goal of the game is to use your crab's claws to capture your opponent's balls while defending your own.
Available for the Atari ST and Amiga, Botics was an isometric update of Pong released in 1990.
A simple Pong clone. The first game made by Bungie Studios. It is Pong Spelled backwards. It was a free game for Mac OS and came out about a year before Bungie was formed.
A basic Pong variant that was published as Starball in Germany.
Use the Paddle to keep the ball going to get the high score.
Players could control multiple paddles and there were on screen obstacles
Tennis is a Pong imitator built into the Fairchild Channel F console (released in 1976).
There's a paddle and ball, but a wall is your enemy.
Playtron was an arcade game developed by Kasco (Kansei Seiki Seisakusho Co.) in 1973. It was the first video game with color, sprites, animations, and a modular arcade system. Only two prototype units were produced.
Following their loss of Nolan Bushnell and his success with Pong, Nutting Associates cobbled together this clone with the branding of Computer Space.
Taito's attempt at the arcade ping-pong game genre, and likely their first ever arcade game release.
Super early arcade "hockey" game from Sega.
An early arcade game from Bally
Playtime is an incredibly early Pong clone from Midway Games.
Sega's first "video" arcade game. Unlike their earlier amusement games, it uses discrete logic as opposed to being electro-mechanical.
Winner was the first video game by Midway. Like most inaugural releases from companies of the day, it was a simple Pong clone.
Released in 1973, this was the most successful Pong clone in the arcades, rivalling the success of even Pong itself for quite some time.
4-player simultaneous Pong in one of the official sequels to Atari's arcade hit.
For the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. It used cartridge #3 that came with the system but this additional game came with cards, scoreboard, tokens and a baseball field overlay.
Table Tennis is a top-down tennis game released for the Magnavox Odyssey.
Tennis for Two is one of the first video games ever made, designed in 1958. It was created by William Higinbotham and used an oscilloscope for a display.
Designed in 1952 by Alexander S. Douglas for his PhD thesis, OXO is the world's first graphical computer game, created a decade before Spacewar! and six years before Tennis for Two.
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