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Mechanical Pong

Posted by timothy on 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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  4. Re:umm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So build one jackhole...

  5. test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    test

  6. Re:Funnily enough... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not funny. u'r a looser.

  7. Oops by muntumbomoklik · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think I'm wrong. It is German. Sorry, I'm drunk. It is almost Oktoberfest time, you know....

  8. gmail invites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gmail invite 1

  9. Re:Carnival by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is Carnival?

  10. Toby McGuire? by ransomspqr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that Toby McGuire on the index page?

  11. Old news by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is OLD news. Google admitted this a long time ago IIRC, and said it was better to get into the country with restrictions than not at all.

    1. Re:Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You are *sooo* offtopic.

  12. Re:Faithful reproduction? Hardly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  13. Re:Real life pong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget that you lose the solution pong == 0 when you divide both sides by pong. ^_^

  14. Re:Geek Gods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like they hired Charlie Sheen too.

    Sounds more like Vice City than Half Life!

  15. It's been done before . . . by OverlordQ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

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  16. It's called table tennis by fredrated · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the backyard player calls ping pong, and it's even in the olympics.

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  18. Re:Other Real Life Games by anotherone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot: Explaining jokes since 1996

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