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Pong Consoles Episode - See the video here!

What's the score? The time. Our signed Pong Clock # 283.

As Pong randomly plays, the score shown is the time of day on this unusual timepiece by Sander Mulder / Buro Vormkrijgers. In the old school Pong you could put the paddles in such a position, that the ball kept bouncing forever.

Quite hypnotic, and it became the inspiration for this time-killer/clock. The release of the limited edition of 400 Pong Clocks created such a hype that it sold out in 1 day. We are happy to have Pong Clock #283 from the original owner Julian Brannigan, UK in the museum's collection. The Designer Sander Mulder  signed our Pong Clock in December 2009. See the photos here.

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On 27 January 2010 we celebrate the first birthday of the Pong Museum. We have had a wonderfull start last year and could collect many fascinating pong systems in the last twelve months. The museum is promoted on many websites including switched.com, boingboing.net, retromagazine.eu and "7 Bizarre Museums You Don't Want to Miss". We had a nice chat with Jamillah Knowles from BBC Radio on air in UK.  Mr. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of Home Video Games and the Odyssey, signed our museum´s Odyssey 200 in Berlin on July 29, 2009. Also our Pong Clock # 283 has been signed by the designer Sander Mulder in December 2009. Around 55.000 people have visited the museum´s page within the first year and around 280.000 pages have been viewed.

I look forward to collect more systems and share some interesting facts about video ping-pong and its history. Please come back - this is a project in process.

 

 Greetings from Berlin,
 Oliver, curator

Many thanks to Hien Camilla Segieth - our favorite museum´s photographer - we have a very nice photo of Mr. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of Home Video Games and museum´s curator Oliver.

Mr Baer signed our museum´s Odyssey 200 in Berlin on July 29, 2009. Mr. Baer visited Berlin to celebrate the online launch of the "History of Video Games Timeline" by Computerspiele Museum Berlin.

As part of his insane goal to produce a game a week for the next year, British coder Jayenkai produced this fusion of Tetris and Pong, Tetripong, which has you trying to clear lines of blocks as you would in a traditional Tetris game, except with the bouncing Pong balls threatening to knock out essential blocks from your game.

To add even more anxiety, there's a mechanic that slowly fills your screen with water, only draining when you clear a line in the game.

You can download Tetripong for free from our Pong software section