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G4: The Pong Channel?
CoffeeNowDammit writes "Care to watch other people play Pong? You may be able to do so with the debut of G4, a new US cable channel (via participating Comcast cable providers) devoted entirely to video-gaming. G4 will air a marathon of Pong.. 24 hours a day.. see ball, see ball bounce.. for an entire week. Story is here . What a country." This has got to be a joke, right? A fake press release? Please, tell me it's a joke.
that heads are gonna roll before the week is out.
"Seriously sir, if we do it for a whole week, people will start tuning in every day!"
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I, for one, hope it's NOT a joke. I absolutly love watching others play video games. But that's probably because I suck at them myself. Either way, i'd pay for this channel in a heartbeat.
Oh wait, nevermind.... disregard the above post. I was too stoned to realize what i was typing.
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This was obviously for the new Porn channel, not Pong channel. Why on Earth would someone from Slashdot submit a story that had nothing to do with porn and everything to do with nostalgia game play?
I really hate Dan Patrick.
Will there be ad breaks? I just know I'm gonna be in the bathroom when the most exciting goal is scored...
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I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of their beancounters when someone else actually reads the market study they've obviously been adhering to and notices that they've mistakenly read that a "pong-marathon" would be good for ratings instead of "porn-marathon" :-)
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Thanks for spoiling it! chrisd: all your plotlines are belong to frontpage.
Squint in amazement at our week long marathon of text based MUD's.
All your favorites, all day, all week long. Don't touch that dial.
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7 days of pong. Just enough time to build up an audience of people who are used to switching over from Teletubbies as they get baked in front of their TV. Then switch the programing. Hopefully the inertia built up from pure habit will maintain the audience.
... to hear the Linux source being read out over radio.
I had hoped that this was a chance to watch a bunch of PINGs.
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Is this just another attempt to cash in on the current Reality Tv fad?
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I've heard of some weird fetishes, but whatever moves your joystick.....
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Of course, with pause and rewind of live TV, I would never again miss a crucial shot...
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They will look at their tv and say "k, videogame network is channel 42, ill scope it out later." and change the channel.
2 days later.. "what happened to that videogame network.." *flips through channels* "here it is.. woah, coverage of that new ps2 release that everyone is drooling over!"
Ummm... either that or 2 days later.. "what happened to that videogame network.." *flips through channels* "here it is.. woah... still... pong... erm... ok... I... might... check... back... next... year...... maybe"
I wonder who's doing announcing? I find it hard to keep up, sometimes.
Well its american TV, so they'll probably have a blue streak following the ball, so I can figure out where it is.
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Or more likely those who want to listen to them on the radio.... :)
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