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Remember Pong? It’s back, in RPG formA new take on a very old game
A new take on a very old game
The creature wearing the skin of Atari have revisited perhaps the most iconic video game of the company whose bones it sucked clean of marrow then crunched to dust and swallowed, today releasingPong Quest. It’s Pong, but also sort of a dungeon-crawler. I am sceptical of everything the creature wearing the skin of Atari does, especially after terrible decisions likerebooting Asteroids as a multiplayer survival game(since vanished), but new twists on old arcade games can turn out quite fun. HMMM. Observe, a trailer follows.
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Pong Questbuilds upon ye olde paddle ‘n’ ball tennising with dungeon-crawling dressing, character customisation, some sort of story, and ballbattles with powers and fights drawing bits from other Atari arcade games like Asteroids and Centipede. It also has a four-player battle mode.
The RPG dressing sounds whatever and I do not like how Pong Quest looks but I am potentially up for weird Pong variants. Rebuilding classic rules in a new way can be great. Bandai Namco’sPac-Man Championship EditionandSpace Invaders Extremeare fantastic new takes on their source material. Pippin Barr has made many surprising and delightful variants of classics, includingBreakouts,Pongs,Chesses, andChogue. AndHoledown, which came to PC the other week, is a proper lovely take on Breakout that I strongly recommend you play. There is potential here?
