Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong

mikejuk writes "Atari is offering up to $100,000 in a contest for a new version of Pong, the classic game that launched video games 40 years ago, for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. The judges for the contest include Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, who came up with the original idea for Pong. So, what does a 21st century Pong look like? How does it play? And what role does touch have in this, the simplest of games?"

Comments

Oh, oh, I know this one!

[Anonymous Coward]

It needs to be first person, it needs to have blood, also needs to have dubstep music.

Oh, and don't forget DLC with new tennis balls and racket designs.

You can't deny it Atari, this is the only way to go.

Game play

[thoughtspace]

You have to get a Government form completed. You bounce backwards and forwards between departments. The only difference is that you never get out and the game lasts forever.

Ms. Pong

[SteveFoerster]

They should call it Ms. Pong, and it should be essentially the same game, except the ball has a ribbon in its hair.

I see...

[Vlaix]

... a post-modern Pong, where two balls would throw a stick at each other.

What does 21st century pong look like?

[guttentag]

What does 21st century pong look like?

Imagine a man in an orange jumpsuit with black lettering that reads "enemy combatant." He's wandering around a cell at Guantanamo Bay, alternately bumping into a U.S. military judge, a civilian judge and an official from his home country, who keep shoving him back toward the others.

It's accurate, but not much fun.

Noooo! Danny, remember Bill Murray ..

[way2trivial]

"Be the ball!"

    It's all about different perspective!

I want a pong where game play is I'm the ball and I choose the amount of english on the spin

I want frogger from a first person view. I want an turn based "defender" where I control a massive army against an overpowered computer AI player.
Dammit, I want a lunar lander where I am fucking gravity......