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🕹️ How to Play

Controls: Click and drag anywhere on the game area to move your paddle (left side)

  • Move your mouse up and down while holding the button
  • Try to hit the ball past the computer's paddle
  • First to 5 points wins!
  • Works on touch screens too!

🎯 Why Pong Changed Everything

  • First Hit: Proved video games could be profitable businesses
  • Simple Physics: Ball bounces, paddles move—easy to learn, hard to master
  • Arcade Culture: Started the arcade boom of the 1970s
  • Social Gaming: Two players competing face-to-face

💡 Fun Fact

The First Pong Arcade Machine was installed at a bar in Sunnyvale, California. It was so popular that it broke down after just two weeks—the coin mechanism was jammed with too many quarters!

This convinced Atari founder Nolan Bushnell that video games could be a massive industry. He was right!