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It’s been 40 years since Pong was unleashed on an unsuspecting world, and PongMuseum.org is there to celebrate. Check out their collection for some oddities like East-German TvSpiel, the chunky West-German Tele-Multiplay - 825-301, or the GD 1380 that came with a gorgeous blue light-gun from the late, lamented HeathKit, or celebrate the do-it-yourself ethic with your own TV game kit (sorry, PAL only).

Currently, there’s a not-to-be-missed video of Ralph Baer playing Pong back in 1969: wide ties and analog blips, ahoy!

SCP has featured some different pong incarnations: choose-your-own-adventure book; pong-mechanik is mechanical pong; and Pong Story which is heavy on the history and photos.

Spare Time Gizmos uses his, wisely. We are particularly intrigued by the COSMAC ELF 2000 and the SBC6120 — both machines the we, sadly, will probably never build.

And they use JavaScript to re-create the Workbench.

Spotted on HN.

The Escapades of Percival ‘Pac’ Man, Esq.

source-code for classic arcade (and console) games. Along with chit-chat.

It’s 1975, and IBM wants to show you the future. A slideshow of images. That’s a real slideshow, by the way, of real slides. No powerpoint, no laptops, no digital projects. A carousel.

Click. Click. Click

A gallery of photos from the late, lamented 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - The Ride

I got to ride on this… ride in 1987. It was beginning to be dilapidated. The Carousel of Progress was still around at that point, too….

Perhaps you have been unfortunate enough to see the new, micro-miniaturized version of Death Race a micro-miniaturized film (a “remake” of the 1975 version of Death Race 2000), wherein all salient characters plot devices, twists, denouements, etc. are reveal’d in the space of 2 and one-half minutes.

While the original movie seems to have spawned an early video-game adaptation, the new movie script seems to have been drawn from the game.

Sadly, the remake of the video game will probably inspire yet another sequel.

THIS IS SO WRONG.

Shredding an Asteroids cabinet in microseconds.

Pong as a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Interesting idea, which upon reflection seems very boring. And the specific implementation interface is horrible