Remember Pong? It’s again, in RPG kind

The creature carrying the pores and skin of Atari have revisited maybe essentially the most iconic video game of the corporate whose bones it sucked clear of marrow then crunched to mud and swallowed, as we speak releasing Pong Quest. It’s Pong, but additionally type of a dungeon-crawler. I’m sceptical of all the pieces the creature carrying the pores and skin of Atari does, particularly after horrible choices like rebooting Asteroids as a multiplayer survival game, however new twists on previous arcade games can end up fairly enjoyable. HMMM. Observe, a trailer follows.

Pong Quest builds upon ye olde paddle ‘n’ ball tennising with dungeon-crawling dressing, character customisation, some type of story, and ballbattles with powers and fights drawing bits from different Atari arcade games like Asteroids and Centipede. It additionally has a four-player battle mode.

The RPG dressing sounds no matter and I don’t like how Pong Quest appears to be like however I’m probably up for bizarre Pong variants. Rebuilding basic guidelines in a brand new approach will be nice. Bandai Namco’s Pac-Man Championship Edition and Space Invaders Extreme are improbable new takes on their supply materials. Pippin Barr has made many shocking and pleasant variants of classics, together with Breakouts, Pongs, Chesses, and Chogue. And Holedown, which got here to PC the opposite week, is a correct pretty tackle Breakout that I strongly advocate you play. There is potential right here?

Pong Quest is out now on Steam. A 20% launch low cost brings it all the way down to £9.11/€9.99/$11.99 till Tuesday the 28th. It’s made by Chequered Ink.

The creature carrying the pores and skin of Atari (the French firm previously often called Infogrames) are nonetheless making baffling and terrible choices. In 2018 they crowdfunded a new console, the Atari VCS, which seems like a worse Ouya. Now they’re being sued by the console’s designer, who claims Atari haven’t paid all the pieces they owe him. But the Atari model truth clearly nonetheless holds worth and belief if the general public will pledge $3,058,123 to an thought as patently daft because the Atari VCS. The creature trudges on.