Friday, September 26, 2025

1977's video games: Racing, Football, and (still) Pong


Three more games that I can't actually play right now, but it's getting closer to my time. Well, one of them I very well might have played, actually.

First up is the number one arcade game: the F1 cabinet pictured above. Looks like another massive leap in gaming quality compared to last year's racers.




Meanwhile, with the Color TV-Game 6, Nintendo continues to stake its claim in the home gaming market - although, in this case, only in Japan. And what could you play? Well ... Pong, of course, except that it was called Light Tennis. There were six variations on the game with different obstacles and difficulty types, but it's still Pong.

Here's some suitably rough-looking gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPx3PbIxAvc



And, finally, here's one where there's at least a decent chance that I played it as a kid. I have two older brothers who both played football (and who will return in a story about The Legend of Zelda in a few weeks), and I remember these kinds of games kicking around the house. 




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