Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Paper Pong - Time Waster?
by Jason Clarke Oct 29th 2008 at 11:00AM
Remember Pong? Wouldn't it be great if rather than playing it on some kind of video game system or computer, you could just play it like a Choose Your Own Adventure book? Like, literally in a book. Cool, eh? I suspect a few of you just thought "wow, cool!" while many of the rest of you thought "um, what?". It's okay, I'm distinctly in the "um, what?" camp, but I can see why someone might really get a kick out of Paper Pong. Basically, it's a book you can buy on Amazon that lets you play through what must be an incredibly repetitive game of Pong.
If you're really interested in trying it out, they've made a web-based version, which recreates the analog experience frighteningly well. Each page shows a position for the ball, and each of the two paddles. You then have the option of moving up, or down, and to do so you change to the page number given for that direction using an awfully long drop-down list.
Time Waster? I don't know how much time anyone's actually going to spend playing this, but it's certainly a unique way to present a video game. Now if they could only turn Doom into a playable book like this.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve said 2:24PM on 10-29-2008
Ummm.. there is literally no way to win... none of the pages have the opponent missing, or about to miss the ball...
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Taylor said 9:32PM on 10-29-2008
Madness. You also can't choose to stay in the same spot. This would be really awesome if it, like, you know, actually worked like it sounded. Well, okay, not really awesome, but at least interesting.
-Taylor
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Eric said 8:49PM on 10-30-2008
If you want to stay in the same spot, you don't turn the page. Simple.
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