Pong - the originality & simplicity

 'Pong - the originality & simplicity'

Back in 1972, when Pong was released by the company Atari and it was an immense success within short time and it triggered the start of the video game industry. Because of this game, the video game industry have boomed and have grasped people's attention.

This game, Pong, was a very simple game to play that all generation of people can play without any difficulties, which is designed to play in bars, at home using console or in arcade. However, there were obviously some flaws of this game's mechanic or function. It does concern to most of games but one of the major problem was that if you play the game constantly, it is inevitable that the player will be bored or get sick of it because of this simple game mechanic, which is moving up and down of the bar to send the ball to the other side. If there were more complexity for this game or higher difficulties for this game, it would have been more successful.

One of the ingenious part of this game was that due to its simplicity and competitiveness of this game is the main success which brought huge attention to this game. Pong, in my personal opinion, have brought a new generation towards to video game and boosted up the technology towards to computer and art sections.