Pong Echo
Move your paddle to block the ball. First to 11 wins. Mouse / touch control.
How to play
A recreation of Pong — the first commercially successful video game (1972). The left paddle is you; the right is AI. The ball bounces between paddles; if the ball passes a paddle, the other side scores 1 point. First to 11 wins.
Control
Desktop: move mouse vertically over the canvas. Mobile: drag finger vertically on canvas. Paddle follows your pointer/finger.
Strategy
Where the paddle hits the ball determines the bounce angle — hitting with the paddle edge sends the ball at a sharper angle, harder for the AI to track. Hitting with the paddle center sends a flat bounce, easy to handle. Advanced play is "edge-spin attack."
About the AI
Easy: AI paddle is 30% slower than the ball with 200ms reaction delay.
Medium: AI speed matches the ball, 100ms delay.
Hard: AI is 10% faster than ball, near-zero delay. You'll rarely win at this level.
Inspiration
Tribute to Atari engineer Allan Alcorn's Pong (1972). Fully original here; visuals, physics, and AI are BverGame original.