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Title: World's Biggest Pong Game
Post by: LongBlade on April 19, 2013, 10:39:42 AM

OK, clearly we need more of this kind of thinking!

QuoteFrank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor, said Friday's classic Atari video game is on schedule to be played on the facade of a mirrored, 29-story skyscraper, even if it rains. Hundreds of built-in LED lights embedded in the north face of the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball with gamers controlling giant, table-mounted joysticks across the Schuylkill River from the building.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/19/skyscraper-check-giant-joystick-check-game-pong-will-be-writ-large-in/

Title: Re: World's Biggest Pong Game
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 19, 2013, 01:13:47 PM

watch the guys coming in from the top for a giant game of Pong

Title: Re: World's Biggest Pong Game
Post by: Wolfe1759 on April 19, 2013, 03:28:54 PM

Here's how the Welsh do it (about 1 min in for Pong), unsurprisingly it involves sheep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6KXECVl3lc

Title: Re: World's Biggest Pong Game
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2013, 03:00:06 PM

^LOL - almost fell off me toadstool laughin' at that.

Title: Re: World's Biggest Pong Game
Post by: Martok on April 22, 2013, 05:59:46 AM

Quote from: Wolfe1759 on April 19, 2013, 03:28:54 PM
Here's how the Welsh do it (about 1 min in for Pong), unsurprisingly it involves sheep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6KXECVl3lc

I'm pretty sure that was posted once here before, but it's still good for a laugh. :D

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