whatever happened to pong?

Use the Up and Down arrows to control the paddle and keep the ball from getting past you for as long as you can.
If the paddle doesn't move try clicking on the game.
This game may not be the most esoteric and useless item on the web, but it is certainly a top ten percenter.   The sad thing is it took more than one person to bring you this game:
  • my brother and me to come up with the idea and ball graphic (harder than it looks!)
  • sheider, the king of java to make the game a reality


  • Questions or Comments: the stoutboy staff

    The staff also remembers "borrowing" the code for the basic pong engine from some other site, but can't remember where so don't hate us if it is your code!   The king of java also wants to point out that the code didn't really work with a hoot to begin with anyway.   The stoutboy staff has duly noted that it still doesn't...