Pong Essays

  • Beer Pong for Dummies

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    Beer Pong for Dummies Throughout the many years, college students have engaged in many activities to either entertain themselves or pass endless time. These activities have ranged from sports, either intramural or varsity, to various clubs and organizations devoted to students personal interests. While these have sparked interest and lasted a long time, none has exceeded the expectations of the wonderful game of beer pong. As I began to think about ways on approaching this topic I became

  • Ping-Pong, A Blast to the Past

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    wasn’t until the late 1800’s when existing evidence of the game appeared. A set made by one a David foster, which was patented in England which are table versions of the outdoors lawn tennis. At the start of the 1900’s John Jacques registers “Ping-Pong” as a trade name in England. The American rights to the name are sold to Parker Brothers. Many people believe Table tennis was started in china due to the very good skill of the game from the Chinese but this is not true. Table tennis was first brought

  • Video Games Get Better Over Time Essay

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    since PONG was made in 1972 games seemingly exploded in popularity because every year or so a new game or a system was made and PONG could be played it home. In September 9, 1995 sony released their first Playstation and started climbing the leader of polarity and in November 15, 2001 the first Xbox was made and Halo:CE ( the first in the franchise) helped it get popular.

  • Atari's Argumentative Essay

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    developed and they became extremely popular. One of the biggest companies in the video and arcade game industry during this time was Atari. In 1971, they created the very first video game arcade machine called Computer Space, and a year later they created Pong which was the first successful arcade game (Lowood). Atari then created a home video game console years later called the Atari 2600. It became extremely popular due to the ability for players to be able to switch games by inserting cartridges. Video

  • sweat fell

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    his nose. Tie Guanyin (Iron Buddha) was two points down and it was the match point. Long Xing Quan (Dragon Fist), the best of all Ping Pong players had lost his last match against Tie and had to reclaim his victorious title. Everything felt much slower for Tie as he stared down his opponent. Tie was revered for his passion and as equally for his talent at Ping Pong. He was 15 years old and tall, just under 6 foot, he looked handsome with his dark brown eyes and his black, spiky hair, which was spiked

  • Atari's Games History

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    with the first Atari game which was pong. When Pong came out on November 30, 1972 the cost was around 1,099 dollars (“Atari History”, 2). Pong started appearing everywhere, from bars to bowling alleys, and even JC Penney (“Atari History”, 2). With Pong’s success Atari decided to come out with their second game called Space Race. Space Race was a dragstrip style racing game, where you could race the clock or your friends (“Arcade/Coin-op”, 3). After selling Pong and Space Race, Atari wanted to get

  • How Games Have Changed from Atari to Xbox

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    Atari was the first commercial video game company with hits like ‘break out” and “pong”. For many people pong was the first video game they have ever played. The idea of pong is that there is two rectangles that only move up and down and a little square that bounces around the screen until one of the rectangles miss, once the rectangle miss’ the game is over. This game may seem simple now but it sold 19,000 units so you can say what you want but back then this was the greatest game ever. Eventually

  • The Rise And Fall Of Atari

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    of Texas at Tyler College of Engineering and Computer Science Introduction The year was 1972. This was the year Atari was created. When it was first released, Atari was one of the most popular gaming systems of the pop culture. Computer Space and Pong being among their first two games, got them their break. In a world where arcade games were not mass produced, Atari made them exist. Atari are not only considered the founders of arcade games but they made household gaming systems possible. Atari

  • Video Games Impact On Sports Essay

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    Performance Sports video games, video games that replicate a real life sport, have been around ever since the first video game console was released . Magnovox Odyssey, one of the first video game consoles, consisted of a table tennis game. Atari’s Pong, another sports video game, one of the very first video games was also a replica of table tennis (Suellentrop 7). As the video games have become more realistic and more popular amongst sports fans, they have created a vast impact on the video gaming

  • Bill Gates and Nolan Bushnell - Pioneers Of Computer Programming

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    Pioneers of Computer Programming When you think of 21st century computing, two things come to mind: Windows and video games. Learning Team A introduces you to the two men responsible for these phenomena – Bill Gates and Nolan Bushnell. William Henry Gates III During that late 1960's and early 1970's, BASIC was one of the premier programming languages. At that time, Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen made the commitment to learn BASIC by reading the user manuals. In exchange for computer

  • Physics of Beer Pong

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    Do you have what it takes to become a beer pong champion? If so, you have come to the right place! In this step-by-step tutorial, I will reveal the secrets of miserably defeating your opponent at the sport of beer pong. When played in tournament, beer pong takes a great amount more physical, psychological, and intellectual endurance than many other sports. It may even take many years of practice to become a champion. Don’t assume that this game is not a blood thirsty sport either. Alcohol is related

  • Video Games Are Good For You Analysis

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    The first video game was a simplistic game that involved bouncing a ball between two bricks. This game was called Pong and it came out in 1972. A lot has changed since 1972 in the video game community. Games have become much more complex where guides are needed to just learn the controls of a game. Steven Johnson, author of “Why Games Are Good For You”, questions why gamers find games so addicting, even though they cause some to act violently. He figures that people play videogames so much because

  • Lucky Wander Boy by D. B. Weiss

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    Video games bring a sense of the reality to most people, especially if you are a hardcore gamer. They bring reality by essentially creating a virtual world that feels as if you are living in the real world. Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss is transmitting a certain message to a certain audience. The novel is intended to enthrall an audience consisted of video game enthusiasts around their late twenties and thirties. Lucky Wander Boy is sending a message to the audience, the message is experiencing

  • Violent Video Games Case Study

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    Have you ever wondered if violent video games can cause aggression in children? Thousands of children all over the world engage in violent video games for a large amount of time during their day. According to ProCon.org 60% of middle school boys and 40% of middle school girls who played at least one Mature-rated (M-rated) game hit or beat up someone, compared with 39% of boys and 14% of girls who did not play M-rated games. I will be using naturalistic and case study research methods to determine

  • Ping Pong Sports

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    Mrs. Martens English 102 27 March 2014 Ping Pong Is No Joking Matter Millions of people play ping pong throughout the world because it offers entertainment, is a good exercise to keep your heart healthy and the health benefits to players of different ages is great. The injury risk is extremely low and if one is playing ping pong to lose weight, you can accomplish all of those goals through playing a few rounds of ping pong each day. As it may seem, ping pong is just a game played in the olympics that

  • Disadvantages Of Video Games In Schools

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    Research has always been conducted to find different ways to enhance the school curriculum but the current talk going around the globe is about enhancing school learning through video games. Although this view is criticized by some people, but a large number of people believe that video games might enhance the academic performance of an individual. According to Simkova, “there are still problems in the attitudes and prejudices of teachers on the use of games in education” (1227).However, other teachers

  • Video Games: Beyond Entertainment and Into Education

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    Video games are not always just for entertainment or to have fun, sometimes they can be of educational value toward many things or help develop your personality, most of the time people play games for more than just fun but to learn new ways to do some things in real life. Video games can give you educational value, letting you learn new things easily allowing you to work at your own pace while be educated and not notice it. There are even some games made for toddlers that will help their brains

  • The Power of Ping-Pong Balls

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    The Power of Ping-Pong Balls Being assigned an I-Search paper, I was to acquire a question that was appealing to me, and that I did. It all started after mindless searches via the internet and some procrastination, to which I found myself to be in front of the television. While I knew I should be looking for a suitable question, I still sat there watching on. I happened to be flipping through the channels when a commercial for the Mythbusters brought about the question if one can raise a sunken

  • Beerpong

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    Beerpong Beer pong is one of the most popular drinking games known to collegiate students across the country. This game is so often played in college life that most of the time, rules cannot be agreed upon because there are so many different versions. Everyone who plays the game knows a different set of rules, based upon what they had previously been taught. This paper will discuss not only how to play the game, but popular variations that I have come across while doing extensive and grueling

  • Zombie Argumentative Essay

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    It took little else after that to make me believe that what I had been witnessing was real. And, at the end of the twenty-five second long video, you could hear a voice call out, “Enough, already, guys,” which I had assumed was coming from whoever was holding the camera. “Just end him already before someone gets bit,” he said, and with those words, a downward turn was made in the camera’s direction as it began filming the ground and a gunshot rang out. The video then cut out. Since then, I had