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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:11PM The Wicker Man said

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What an innovation! New and exciting!
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:12PM dabamf said

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That is a great picture! So simple and yet so funny. Does that image constitute a "raid" in the Pong MMORPG??????
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:39PM (Unverified) said

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Agreed. That picture is pure win!
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 4:50PM Rengozu said

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I choked when I saw the pic. One of the funniest things I've seen in awhile.
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Posted: Mar 1st 2008 6:00AM (Unverified) said

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"Slayer!"
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:12PM Duke said

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Chuck E. Cheese MMO confirmed?

I'm gonna go dough farming!
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:48PM Roto13 said

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I may groan to death.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 4:28PM (Unverified) said

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No, it's Pong: The MMO
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 4:47PM Duke said

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Its a slow news day - I take em where I can get em.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:15PM Shagittarius said

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I hope there's a 'Pervy Old Man in a Hot Tub' class.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:37PM dr steve brule said

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-5pt. charisma enchanted cigar in mouth
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:29PM (Unverified) said

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I'd play it for the lolz.


I wonder if there'd be user-created content in a Pong MMO.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:39PM dabamf said

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Yes, there is. You may create a line or a dot, or a combination thereof. To whit:

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As you can see people can be doing this until the next millenium.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 2:41PM (Unverified) said

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Oh good, it's good to know he has an original idea now.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:10PM Gwr said

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he does make a good point....theres other ways to play games of that genre.

think of how WoW tookd the concepts from EQ and changed them,to a more fun,simple and friendly desing.

now if he ,or anyone else ,brings something fresh to the table that be awsome for the industry....



seriously,MMO are still big on time requirement and constant dedication,unlike easier pick and play FPS or ...PONG.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 4:14PM Shagittarius said

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"think of how WoW tookd the concepts from EQ and changed them,to a more fun,simple and friendly desing."

OR AS I SEE IT:

think of how wow took the concepts from EQ and dumbed them down for the masses to create an even more inane level grind.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 5:54PM (Unverified) said

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The question then is, do MMOs NEED to be time-consuming? There's nothing in the definition of massively multiplayer which implies that it has to be time consuming. (and for that matter, SL isn't exactly time-consuming either. Unless you're addicted, but then, anything can be time-consuming.)
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:01PM (Unverified) said

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Stop dissing MMOs. You all sound as if all MMOs MUST be either WoW or SL clones. heck, without going into new-and-innovative ideas, I can list out a train of MMOs which isn't derived from Everquest or MUDs.

Planetside: MMOFPS
Puzzle Pirates: MMO-Puzzle
Dofus: MMO-strategy
BOTS: MMO-Arcade
Neopets: MMO-Casual/Grab-bag

Other not-so-wild possibilities:
MMO-Pinball
MMO-Sim/Construction (Lego seems to be heading towards this, along with Spore, to an extent)
MMO-Board Game
MMO-Party (similar to MMO-Arcade)
MMO-Adventure (more in line with 4-Swords than Myst)

Fact is, MMO is not even a genre. It's just a classification of games based on the number of players, and that's it. You don't expect people to invent new numbers.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:02PM (Unverified) said

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I will diss MMO's all I want. You can't stop me you whiner.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:57PM (Unverified) said

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I wasn't gonna diss MMO's, but now I feel compelled to do so. Ahem...

All you fool's that waste money on MMO's are suckers!

That is all.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 4:39PM The Wicker Man said

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{CRYING OUT OLOUD} NOOO STOP QUIT (sobs) MMOS STOP IT!!! You big baby you make me sick!
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:07PM (Unverified) said

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Is there anywhere you can play a MMO Pong? That looks really fun for some reason.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:09PM In A World said

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I hope the Pong MMO still manages to incorporate a tutorial level where you slay rats in some old lady's basement. My strategy would be to lob dots at them.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:17PM (Unverified) said

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Actually, Al Alcorn, one of Atari's first employees, created Pong.

Nolan Bushnell did create Computer Space, though, widely considered the first arcade game.

Read this, it's a fantastic book.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-History-Video-Games-Pokemon/dp/0761536434/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2

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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 3:31PM (Unverified) said

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I've read it, actually. It's a good overview.

I'll give you Al Alcorn as Pong's designer and programmer, although arguably the production of Pong as an arcade unit (and phenomenon) must be at least partly credited to Bushnell.

And Computer Space *is* arguably the first arcade game, although it performed abysmally in the market, and was highly derivative of SpaceWar!, which itself is widely considered the first video game ever (and most definitely the first open source, community-developed project).

As long as we're doing book recommendations:
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Up-Japanese-Video-Games-World/dp/0744004241/ref=pd_sim_b_img_1

Kohler's book is fairly underrated. Though brief (especially in relation to Kent's behemoth), it gives a fairly insightful look into the culture of video games, particularly focusing on western influences (like the advent of storyline in arcade games, which hit its first peak with the then-revolutionary intro sequence of Donkey Kong). Good stuff.
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 6:58PM (Unverified) said

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After his words, it better be great. Go for Broke!
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 8:31PM EJ said

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Priceless picture - funniest thing of the week for me :).
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Posted: Feb 29th 2008 9:58PM (Unverified) said

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Anyone ever play that one Multiplayer Pong game that took the average position of 50 online players to move a single paddle?

It was a cooperative experiment game of sorts...wonder if I can find it.
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Posted: Mar 6th 2008 11:17AM (Unverified) said

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There actually already is an MMO Pong, I remember being linked it a few years ago on Digg.

It takes the average location of each player's paddle.
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Posted: Mar 1st 2008 5:59AM (Unverified) said

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Your picture are win teh biggest internet!
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Posted: Mar 3rd 2008 4:40AM (Unverified) said

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Talk to me in 3 or 4 years when WOW starts to fade... why do people even bother with mmos?
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