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Massively Multplayer Pong - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Mar 1st 2006
Pong is about as simple as games get, but what if 30 people are trying to control the paddle at once? That's the
premise of Massively Multiplayer Pong, a Flash game in which you and a few
dozen other people play an endless game of pong against a few dozen other people, but with only two paddles and one
ball. Though in essence little more than a cute experiment in the wisdom of crowds, Massively Multiplayer Pong is
surprisingly fun. Playing it feels kind of like driving a car in a dream—you're sort of in control but there are
larger, more mysterious forces at work. At least, that's what my driving dreams are like.
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, ...
