iPong is an integrated media player and pong game which revolutionises the way people simultaneously view media and play pong. It is also capable of playing plain pong without a movie, for those who find a timewaster with a media player attached as an afterthought too reminiscent of RealPlayer.
Rated 6.5 on PerversionTracker.com
| RealPlayer | iPong |
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| Plays a popular, technically inferior media format | Plays an unpopular, technically superior format | | Fills the screen with ads | Fills the screen with paddles | | A timewaster with a media player | A media player with a timewaster |
The critics rave:
"This software allows a person to watch a movie while playing pong. This revolutionary piece of software is the beginning of what (I’m sure) will be a very long line of pong media players. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see apple come out with some sort of handheld pong-media digital-lifestyle device sooner or later. As revolutionary as this program is, it’s not without flaws. As the first program to use pong-media technology, it is a somewhat basic implementation. As with most technological breakthroughs, we’ll just have to wait until consumer hardware catches up to tasks of this complexity. Think of iPong not as a program intended for standard use, but more as a preview of a digital transformation that will occur over the next few years."
--- macgamefiles.com
"Application for idle fellow. While re-raising animated picture with the background, you can play the ping pong game. Ball partner goal (rear of the partner) hammering. First when you designate your own " Score " gauge as full tank, it is the victory, as for setting from coconut. From the window of the iPong, there are times when it becomes strange."
--- Some blog
"Now you watch the movie instead. Now you see the ball rocketing into the wall just above your paddle. Now you become wildly paranoid and descend into an alcoholic fog, each day a constant struggle to survive in a world that punishes and rewards without justice.
[Exeunt. The stage slowly darkens. Upstage right, a tiny old lady rocks quietly back and forth, knitting a nuclear warhead . . .]
The bold lack of utility displayed by iPong must be, unfortunately, weighed against the useful movie-playing function."
--- PerversionTracker.com
"how dumb"
--- Anonymous on macupdate.com
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Mac OS X 10.3 or better
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