It’s baaaaaaaack! After being pulled from the service seven or eight months ago for an overhaul, Block Fight! has popped up again. However, aside from some graphical improvement (and possibly some AI tweaks, unless I’m imagining the computer playing a bit better), nothing much has changed. The menu screen with the “XBox Live” selection that [...]
And so, the fourth title to be reviewed that begins with ‘Battle’ is Battle Ball. Although it’s less of a battle with the ball, but more of a battle with yourself at how long you can continue playing this dull pong clone without your brain liquifying and slowly dribbling out your nose. Battle Ball is [...]
A possibly cynical release reflecting a convergence of XBLCG memes (not that I am casting blame, as I’ve been tempted myself to whip up an app called ‘Fire Poker’), Ping Time is a Pong clock. Yes, that’s right, a Pong clock! I can’t even tell you the degree to which the idea tickles me. When [...]
With a title like that, I was kind of hoping for some sort of Extra-Terrestrial version of Hulk Hogan to be a playable character, but unfortunately, Go Go UFO Smackdown is actually just a 4-player Pong clone. Each player gets a planet on one side of the screen to defend, and a space pong to [...]
Neon Paddles is a Pong variant for the Xbox 360, available to download from the community games service via the marketplace.
Jackpot Stadium is an air hockey game for the Xbox 360. Available to download from the Community Games service for 200 points.
Xbox 360 Community Games Designer Checklist #12 The problem with Pong is: There’s not enough balls. The balls don’t fight back. You can’t pick up the balls. There’s not enough paddles. It’s in the wrong dimension.
That’s not Tennis. That’s Pong. Whatever way you paint it, it’s Pong. Another Pong. That makes 2 direct Pong clones, 3 games loosely based on Pong, 1 game that references Pong and 1 game that owes its heritage to Pong but shifted into the 2 point 5th dimension (which I still strongly argue is an [...]
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