Mechanical Pong

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @05:21PM from the pronounced-the-same dept.

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."

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Toby McGuire? by ransomspqr · 2004-09-22 00:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is that Toby McGuire on the index page?
It's been done before . . . by OverlordQ · 2004-09-22 02:17 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Anybody seen Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure? They beat Death at Pong.

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Organic dates? On /.? by blueZ3 · 2004-09-22 02:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You must be new here. :-)

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Re:Other Real Life Games by anotherone · 2004-09-22 02:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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