Mechanical Pong

RotJ writes "Some crafty Germans have created an electromechanical conversion of the game Pong: "Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components." Talk about analog retro chic." saccade.com adds "This amazing device faithfully re-creates the classic original video game with pulleys, wires, motors and a (pre-chip, pre-transistor, pre-tube) relay based computer. They were partly inspired by Konrad Zuse, who created some of the first electromechanical and electronic computers."

Comments

Re:Real life pong

[FrankHaynes]

It could also be called 'air hockey', requiring no computer and providing a true tactile experience to the players.

My brother had an RCA color television with built-in PONG on it. You pushed a mechanical button to activate the PONG game and hooked up the controller(s) to go to town. What will they think of next?

Amazing how such a stupidly simple game could be so captivating to a primitive audience. Are we smarter these days or just more jaded?

Re:MS Pinball

[KDR_11k]

An implementation of the Epic Pinball Enigma table would be enough for me.