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February 17, 2009

Curator Oliver had a nice chat with Jamillah Knowles from BBC Radio - sorry for the "dinglish" english! You can listen to the podcast at BBC.co.uk or click the following link (if you have QuickTime installed) and skip the first 3/4 of the podcast - its the last Interview on the podcast (ca last 8 min). The podcast is only up for 7 days before it gets swapped!

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/

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Featured at switched.com

February 12, 2009

'Pong' Museum Celebrates Game's 40th-Anniversary

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Feb 12th 2009

Who doesn't love 'Pong?' Nobody, that's who.

That's why we just had to tell you about the Pong Museum, a Web site dedicated to all things 'Pong.' The museum opened its virtual doors on January 27 to celebrate the 40th(ish) anniversary of 'Pong' and the Magnavox Odyssey (the first commercially available video game system).

Along with a detailed history of the game and all of its various incarnations, the site includes great gems like a video of inventor Ralph Baer and hardware developer Bill Harrison playing 'Pong' in 1969, in the first video demo of the game. The site even sells a build your own TV game kit, which comes with everything you need to assemble your own 'Pong' game. Of course the kit requires some soldering skills and is sadly PAL-only (that means it's no good on U.S. TV sets), but we're hoping a NTSC (TV format used in the U.S.) version will be available soon.

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Featured at killerpoke.net

February 11, 2009

...and the ball was square

The museum is officially opened since 27 January 2009 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the video ping-pong and the birthday of the Magnavox Odyssey 37 years ago. My dear late Grandad had this very first machine - he never beat me, I let him win, honest…*cough*.

Thanks to Nick Craske for featuring the museum.

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Featured at boingboing.net

February 11, 2009

The museum is featured at

Thanks to David Pescovitz for featuring the museum!

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of "video ping-pong" (AKA Pong), the Pong Museum has opened its virtual doors. Over at Boing Boing Offworld, Brandon points to the best bits, including a video of inventor Ralph H. Baer and hardware hacker Bill Harrison playing the game in 1969.

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Featured at retromagazine.eu

February 10, 2009

Neues Pong-Museum eröffnet
Dank an Sebastian Bach für das Feature!

Ein neues, virtuelles Museum, das sich ausschließlich Pong und den verschiedensten Klonen widmet, ist seit wenigen Tagen eröffnet: Pongmuseum.com. Das Besondere: Für alle, die gerne einmal nach guter, alter Homebrew-Tradition selbst eine Pong-Konsole zusammenlöten möchten, denen bietet der Museumsshop einen Pong-Bausatz für 35 Euro.

http://www.retromagazine.eu/retro/

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Featured at offworld.com

February 10, 2009

Avoid missing: the Pong Museum opens its virtual doors
Thanks to Brandon for featuriing the museum!

Recently opened to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ralph Baer's first TV-displayable version of the game that would come to be known as Pong (or is it the 42nd? Let's just call it 40-ish), the Pong Museum has curated a staggering amount of information on the game in its myriad earliest forms (including scans of each of the consoles themselves, even).

Even better, though, is the video Baer sent in to the site of he and hardware tech Bill Harrison playing some of the first ever rounds of multiplayer videogames, showing a surprisingly organic looking game compared to the strict vectors of the later versions (this version had a separate knob for fakeout curveballs).

The site's webshop even includes a DIY build-your-own-Pong-kit, which, unfortunately, appears to be PAL only for now, though they do ship to the US.

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Featured at classicgaming.gamespy.com

February 6, 2009

The Museum is featured at classicgaming.gamespy.com

Many thanks to jrhunt for promoting the museum!

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