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G4: The Pong Channel?

Posted by chrisd on from the tired-of-the-fireplace-channel dept.

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.

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  1. Joke by Creepy13 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This HAS to be a joke..

    Or are there actually people who would PAY for this?? (since it's a subscribers channel).

    Who wants to watch people playing games anyway? I'd rather play thos games instead of watching.

    1. Re:Joke by Blackwulf · · Score: 2, Redundant

      Nope, it's no joke. You're just taking it the wrong way.

      It's a test feed before the real programming starts on May 1st - they just decided to run Pong instead of boring color bars with a low tone for a week.

      I thought it was really a creative way to get interest in the channel. Guess I was wrong.

  2. Re:You guys are missing something.. by Blackwulf · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Actually the Pong stops on May 1st. The test feed will then be done with and they'll be showing real content.

    Would boring bland color bars been more acceptable?

    Thank you for playing, though.