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Just when you think Pong can’t be played any other way, yet another creative soul emerges to prove the notion wrong. Mike McCracken has managed to remove all visual aspects of the game yet still maintain the core goal by enabling one’s head to make the motions typically assigned to the hands. Essentially, a sound is emitted from the headphones on one side or the other, and the gamer has to tilt his / her head just so until the noise is centered. This back-and-forth sequence speeds up to intensify the challenge, and if you can’t manage to keep the ringing front and center, an unpalatable buzzer sounds and a light turns on to alert you of your defeat. Really, it’s way more clear how all this works in the video below, so have at it.

[Via MAKE]Continue reading Audio Ping Pong lets your ears, noggin do all the work

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Those hackers work fast. Two days ago, we saw a demo of the Zelda: Twilight Princess exploit, which allowed for the possibility of Nintendo’s Wii to boot homebrew code off of SD cards via stack smashing (buffer overflow). Now a clever coder named Auby has gone ahead and extended the hack to load an ELF version of Pong which was originally coded for the GameCube. Right now the controls aren’t functioning, but it appears that this is a work in progress, so we should be seeing updates to it soon. Check the video after the break to watch the breathtaking drama unfold.

[Thanks, Craig]Continue reading Wii Pong: the Twilight Princess hack evolves

 

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We’re going to have to go on record and claim that the Pong wristwatch still looks to be the smallest iteration of Pong that we’ve seen to date, but we’ll let Ronald Dekker shakily hold the record for the smallest version that’s easily channeled to a TV set. Nevertheless, the &microPONG creation is indeed quite diminutive, using just “an eight-pin PIC processor along with two potentiometers for the bat controls, just as the original.” Per usual, the circuity knowledge used to actually assemble this thing is a hair beyond our realm of expertise, but judging by the extensive lineup of graphs and figures shown in the read link, those even partially in the know may be able to pull something similar off themselves.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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We know, you’ve got a zillion ways to get your Pong on whilst lounging around in your geeked-out crib, but how in the world will you deal with the withdrawals on this year’s trip to Vegas? Thanks to Bally, you may not have to suffer at all, as Nevada gambling regulators recently approved the concept behind Bally Pong, a “slot machine that would for the first time allow hand-eye coordination to affect payout.” Put simply, the machine would enter a 45-second round of Pong if three bonus icons line up on the five-reel video slot machine, and regardless of one’s skill, a minimum award would be doled out simply for reaching the bonus. Oh, it gets better — Bally also said that this was just “the first in a series of skill games (including Breakout!) it had planned,” so those looking to see a hint of vintage when they hit the casino floor should be very pleased if everything goes as planned over the next few months.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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