Text based game of Pong ;)

Motoman · Post by **Motoman** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:41 pm

http://www.karber.net/textbased/pong/ (It seems some people have too much time on their hands.)

Heh cool, stupid and funny at the same time. A text version of the game pong. check it out.

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:29 pm

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

Pong screensaver is the first link on the page. Read the caption by it and you'll see why it's pretty cool. I could run it, but I prefer my electric sheep.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:00 pm

I find this to be a bit more interesting, while having the same concept. That one uses a ton of LEDs. It'd be interesting to make one out of a PSOne screen. It would of course need something generating the video signal. Perhaps you guys making the BlackBox can write a bit of software to do this. I'd buy a BlackBox just to use it to make one of these clocks to hang on my wall.

Squalid · Post by **Squalid** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:04 am

wow...thats...interesting. lol

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:34 am

And like any game, this one can be hacked...

http://www.karber.net/textbased/pong/po ... =0&r=0&h=0

u=0 is your score. r=0 is his. (h=0 is the page, but I haven't mapped those out) Sooo...

http://www.karber.net/textbased/pong/po ... 99&r=1&h=0

Would put me 99 against his one score.

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:48 am

Interesting but a bit boring

Loads of clicking till something acctually happened

Indigno · Post by **Indigno** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:09 pm

interesting concept. Although it seems like there are only three possible places for the ball to go, which makes it a tad boring. There should also be a timer for how long you have to click.

Ari · Post by **Ari** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:17 pm

I've played that before!

One time, I was bored at school and I decided to play pong with one of my friends on paper. We just took turns erasing and redrawing the ball and the paddles. It was surprisingly fun.

But my favorite game of pong is the crappy TI-BASIC version I made. It gets about 2 frames per second, but it's still awesome!

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:19 pm

wow that is awesome. how exactly do you make text based games. a text based Legend of zeld (based on the original) would be awesome. the rest of the zelda series text based though would be as interesting.

Post by **gannon** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:32 pm

Suddenly I'm reminded of when my teacher, another kid, and me played Tron on the chalk board in Calculus....