Taking Pong to the next level

With Pong having been around for over 40 years, we’ve seen many iterations of what is essentially quite a basic game. Once our PyGame version of the game is fully functional, perhaps we could consider what steps we might take to improve our game? On the easier end of the spectrum we could change the colour scheme from black and white to something more contemporary. When Pong was first released, black and white were the only options available. By the time the Atari came out there were 128 colours in the PAL format. Eight-bit consoles introduced 256 colours, and we’re now literally in the billions. Our game is designed in a VGA resolution, so if we were sticking to those retro/vintage aesthetics we’d only have 16 colours available to us.…

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