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6,654 pages: 1,289 machines, 702 software, 460 companies, 64 history, 17 articles, 59 fun. 4,336 media files so far; references to files not downloaded yet are left out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: Table Tennis
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tags:
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- ball and paddle
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- ping pong
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- sport
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- table tennis
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- tennis
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years:
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- '1972'
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params:
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specs:
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- label: year of release
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value: '1972'
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- label: companies
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value: Magnavox
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- label: type
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value: game
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- label: media
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value: cartridge
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- label: systems
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value: Magnavox Odyssey
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- label: number of players
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value: 2 players (versus)
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- label: staff
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value: Ralph Baer, Bill Harrison, Bill Rusch
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screenshots:
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- title: ''
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: documentation
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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machines:
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- /museum/magnavox-odyssey
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company: /companies/magnavox
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oc_id: 65
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221204112710/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=65
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date: '2022-12-04'
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This is the first table tennis video game ever, and also the first tennis game, and also the first pong game, etc... This is clearly the beginning of video games. This game also inspired Nolan Bushnell (later President of ATARI) to copy this game and produce his own version: Pong. The rest is history...
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No score displayed on the screen here, you have to count yourself.
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The game itself is pretty basic, but the Odyssey had something quite interesting: the English control. Indeed, in addition to vertical and horizontal movements, the Odyssey controlers featured an English control knob, a kind of spin effect controled by the player. This made Table Tennis and most of the Odyssey games more interesting than they look.
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