The machine suddenly transforms into a giant robot and runs away. Both you and your opponent just stand and stare at the robot shaped hole now left in the wall.\n\nTHE END

You hear a noise and see a short-haired, athletic woman, in red jogging shorts and a white t-shirt, carrying a hammer. Everyone turns around as she runs towards the machine and throws the hammer into the monitor, thereby destroying the game.\n\nTHE END

The roof seems to open from the middle as a flying saucer comes down. A beam of light from the saucer envelops the Pong machine and it starts to rise. It floats up into the flying saucer which takes off never to be seen again.\n\nTHE END

The ball hits the top of the screen and starts going back downward when you push your paddle all the way to the top, and you miss the ball just barely for a score of 6-7. Your opponent gives you a thumbs up.\n\nThe ball gets served to you as you follow it to the top of the screen and then back down.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 up lose d dead]], [[down|6-7 up lose d dead]], or [[stay|6-7 up lose d dead]]?

You think you can go up under the ball as it comes down, only you just succeed in overshooting it and your player wins the point at 6-7. You mutter under your breath but otherwise make no sound.\n\nThis time the ball is served toward you towards the middle of the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 up lose a dead]], [[down|6-7 up lose a dead]], or [[stay|6-7 up lose a dead]]?

You're near the top but your hand happens to twitch causing the paddle to go all the way to the top, but since the ball is in the middle you lose that point 6-7. You smack the console angry at your hands.\n\nThe ball is served in your general direction slightly downward.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|up lose]], [[down|down lose]], [[stay|stay lose]]?

You follow the ball up but not far enough and it bounces off the top of the screen over your paddle. You lose the point 6-7. The crowd makes a collective "awww" since you clearly could not have hit the paddle even if you wanted to, which you most definitely did.\n\nThe ball is served towards your opponent and he hits it on the top sending it in a zig-zag pattern towards you.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 up lose b dead]], [[down|6-7 up lose b dead]], or [[stay|6-7 up lose b dead]]?

You just watch the ball come to you without moving. You watch as your opponent's sneaky smile turns into a look of befuddlement. He thought he had you. The ball shoots from your paddle in a straight line back past his, as he's caught off guard. You win the point tying the game at 6-6.\n\nThe ball is served toward you in an upward motion, and your paddle is two-thirds of the way down the screen.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-7 up lose b]], [[down|6-7 down lose a]], [[stay|7-6 stay win b]]?

Pong Adventure!

Your opponent jumps up to kick the machine and everything freezes. The whole room seems to rotate as your opponent kicks the machine in destroying it, matrix style. Apparently he doesn't like losing.\n\nTHE END

You have a brilliant idea and stick your fingers in the coin slot, soon your fingers appear on the screen and you push the ball past your opponent and you win the point tying the game 6-6.\n\nYou move your paddle near the top this time, and the ball is served to your opponent who bats it upward towards your paddle.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-7 up lose d]], [[down|7-6 down win e]], [[stay|7-6 stay win d]]?

Your opponent starts spinning his knob faster and faster. The paddle moves off the top and then back onto the bottom. It's so fast it's like an impenetrable wall, and you eventually miss the ball losing the point at 5-6.\n\nThe ball is served to you and you hit it in a nearly straight line toward your opponent. He does the old "edge" bump and sends it careening to your side, up, and down, until it's sailing at a high speed upward toward you.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-7 up lose a]], [[down|5-7 down lose a]], [[stay|6-6 stay win]]?

As if it's in slow motion, the ball comes to your paddle, which allows you to easily bump it from the bottom as you move up. The ball goes up quickly at a sharp angle and then down and then up and down. Your opponent returns the serve quickly and you then actually move your paddle on top of the ball sending it careening to the other side and winning the point. Now you're tied 5-5. You flash a smile at your opponent.\n\nYour paddle is sitting toward the bottom of the screen and the ball is served to you also going in a slightly downward motion.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-5 up win b]], [[down|6-5 down win]], [[stay|5-6 stay lose]]?

a glowing blue light starts tracing the contours of the cabinet, and then it seems to pixelize and finally disappears, apparently deresing Tron style.\n\nTHE END

Your opponent pulls out a revolver and proceeds to shoot the cabinet repeatedly. Apparently he doesn't like losing. So if he can't win, nobody can.\n\nTHE END

An interactive adventure in the style of choose your own adventures.

You and your opponent continue to go back and forth and back and forth. Pretty fairly matching each other. It gets pretty close to the wire 8-9-10 and finally it's tied 10-10. The ball comes down and you move up to meet it, but then make it look like you're going to hit it on the bottom. Totally expecting you to do a zig-zag shot your opponent gets ready. You stay and the paddle hits the ball normally. The ball goes up to the top down to the bottom back up again and attempting to smack it on the edge your opponent moves the paddle down and knocks it back toward you in a zig-zag pattern. It's too quick for you to counter and you lose the game 10-11. Your days of being the champion are over. You leave with your head down.\n\nTHE END

You stay where you are, sure that you'll hit the ball, but instead it managed to slip under that space between your paddle and the bottom of the screen, and you lose the point at 6-7.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent who hits it back as the ball goes down toward the bottom of the screen and then up towards you, who's about in the middle.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 stay lose b dead]], [[down|6-7 stay lose b dead]], or [[stay|6-7 stay lose b dead]]?

You decide to stay and see which way the ball goes as it heads upward only problem is it hits the top of the screen just as it's right next to your paddle and manages to slide just under it giving your opponent the point at 6-7. Your opponent is apparently in the zone because he doesn't seem to notice that he just won the point. He simply spins his dial a little bit and sets up for the next serve.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent and he hits it on the bottom sending it upward toward you.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 stay lose a dead]], [[down|6-7 stay lose a dead]], or [[stay|6-7 stay lose a dead]]?

You stay figuring you're already near the bottom and it's going slightly downward but end up missing the ball because it managed to get right under you losing at 5-6. You then move your paddle towards the middle. You sigh and your opponent's fans snicker.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent and he makes it go upward toward you, but your paddle is still in the middle of the screen.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-7 up lose b]], [[down|6-6 down win]], [[stay|5-7 stay lose a]]?

The ball is bouncing wildly up and down, but you're confident right now and decide to stay where you are. It hits your paddle squarely in the middle and the ball zooms back past your opponent's paddle giving you 7-5. You glance at Nerdy Fan and he gives you a thumbs up.\n\nYou set your paddle back to the middle and the ball is served toward you, you move down to meet the ball which rebounds and heads toward your opponent. Your opponent returns your shot and you start moving upward to meet the ball near the top.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-5 stay win dead]], [[down|7-5 stay win dead]], or [[stay|7-5 stay win dead]]?

The ball is moving at unexpected angles at high speed, and you try to match the balls position with your paddle. As it comes closer and closer you're not sure if your opponent just made a random shot or if he's just playing with you. At the final moment you push your paddle up over the ball and lose the point. The score is now tied at 6-6. Your opponent squints at you and then forming his hand into a gun shape, touches his thumb to his pointing finger as if he just shot you. He seems amused, but you're not.\n\nYou set your paddle back to the middle and the ball is served toward you, you move down to meet the ball which rebounds and heads toward your opponent. Your opponent returns your shot and you start moving upward to meet the ball near the top.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|7-6 up win b]], [[down|7-6 down win b]], [[stay|6-7 stay lose a]]?

You see it moving up and down and up and down. Hearing that beep-boop-beep sound, but you don't care, as soon as it gets close you crank the dial counter-clockwise and slam the paddle into the ball. He thought he had hit the ball fast, but he doesn't know what's hitting him, until he loses that point for a total of 7-5. You taunt him with a look of surprise.\n\nThe ball is launched toward your opponent who comes down on top of it causing it to move toward the bottom of the screen and then back to the ceiling finally from the top of the screen in a downward motion.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-5 up win dead]], [[down|7-5 up win dead]], or [[stay|7-5 up win dead]]?

Lines seem to form in the machine and then separate to reveal a man standing in what appears to be an arcade cabinet suit. He lifts up the portion where the monitors shows through and you notice a man who salutes you and walks out. \n\nTHE END

You hear a small buzzing sound and wood chips starts flying off the machine. Holes appear which you can see through (even in the monitor), and then the whole thing crumbles to dust, which was apparently the work of magic termites.\n\nTHE END

You and your opponent continue to go back and forth and back and forth. Pretty fairly matching each other. It gets pretty close to the wire 8-9-10 and finally it's tied 10-10. The ball comes down and you move up to meet it, but then make it look like you're going to hit it on the bottom. Totally expecting you to do a zig-zag shot your opponent gets ready. You move the paddle up hitting it normally. It goes down to the bottom of the screen and then back up to the top, but he spins the knob real fast making the paddle go up. Too late before the ball hits the top of the screen goes back down and misses the paddle. You win the game 11-10! You are again the champion.\n\nTHE END

Moving down to reach the ball you realize too late it's going to bounce off the bottom and move just past your paddle, and you lose the point, and now the score is 4-5. It's still too early in the game to be worried, so you relax a bit.\n\nThe ball is next served to your opponent and moves down from the top batting the ball back to your direction, but it's a pretty straight line from the middle. Your paddle is still in the middle.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-5 up win]], [[down|4-6 down lose]], [[stay|4-6 stay lose]]?

Pong designer Al Alcorn pushes through the crowd, fiddles at the bottom of the cabinet, and then watches as 4 casters pop out of the bottom. He then wheels the machine away never to be used again.\n\nTHE END

With that last point something triggers in the machine. Suddenly numbers flash on the screen counting down from 10. Finaly it gets to 3-2-1 and before your very eyes it blasts off with rocket fire blasting out the bottom.\n\nTHE END

You move up to meet the ball and after several exchanges your opponent again misses the ball giving you 7-6. You remove your hands from the console and rub them and then put them back on the machine.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent who hits it back as the ball goes down toward the bottom of the screen and then up towards you, who's about in the middle.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 up win c dead]], [[down|7-6 up win c dead]], or [[stay|7-6 up win c dead]]?

Just as anticipated the ball hits the paddle going up and then goes down toward your opponent. A few ball swaps later and it passes your opponent's paddle giving you the point at 7-6. You form both of your hands into a gun shape and point both of them upward. He's not smiling now as more people start gathering around behind you.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent and he hits it on the bottom sending it upward toward you.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 up win b dead]], [[down|7-6 up win b dead]], or [[stay|7-6 up win b dead]]?

You gently crank the knob counter-clockwise and ease the paddle up to meet the ball. The ball hits the top of the screen comes down and hits the bottom of the screen then comes back up. Your opponent hits it again, and it hits the top of the screen coming down. You match the ball's movement and manage to hit it again, this time his hand twitches and he loses the point 7-6.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent who returns it in a near straight line toward the middle of the screen. You're near the top.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 up win a dead]], [[down|7-6 up win a dead]], or [[stay|7-6 up win a dead]]?

Ted Dabney, co-founder of Atari, Inc, simply appears out of thin air. He pushes you and your opponent away from the machine. He then messes with the control knobs, as the machine seems to phase out as if it were a hologram turning off.\n\nTHE END

Your paddle is approximately in the middle of the screen and the ball is drifting downward toward the bottom of the screen in your direction. You're super confident you can return the shot.\n\nDo you wish to move [[up|4-5 up lose]], [[down|4-5 down lose]], [[stay|5-4 stay win part 1]]?

A couple more rounds show that you and your opponent are really well matched. Now the score is tied at 4-4 and you have at least one fan. He's wearing glasses and looks like he designs games like these.\n\n[[Continue...|4-4 b]]

Your opponent realizes he's about to lose and so is feverishly trying to match your every move as your paddle comes down and meets the ball. It shoots back to him, and he returns it back to you. This keeps going on for what seems like minutes, and you decide to end it. Your paddle seems to elongate as you move it downward and catch it square in the middle of your paddle. It zips but is too fast for him to catch it, giving you the point. Now at 7-4.\n\nThe ball gets served back to him and he returns a zig-zag volley back at you. Your paddle is sitting towards the bottom of the screen ready for the next move.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-4 down win dead]], [[down|7-4 down win dead]], or [[stay|7-4 down win dead]]?

This time your strategy is to wait for it to come and then at the last minute hit it on top by moving down. When the ball comes you raise it just a little and then move the paddle down knocking it to the bottom of the screen and making it go in such a zig-zag pattern that your opponent couldn't reach it in time. \n\nNow the score is 6-4 and your opponent isn't happy. He stares you down but only for a moment getting ready for the next ball.\n\nYour paddle is in the upper middle of the screen. The ball starts coming your way and seems to be going in a slight upward direction.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-5 up lose]], [[down|7-4 down win]], [[stay|6-5 stay lose]]?

The machine explodes for no apparent reason. Luckily no one was hurt. Everyone goes home because the match cannot continue.\n\nTHE END

Instead of moving the paddle up, you concentrate really hard. At first nothing happens and then gradually it increases in height until the ball can't pass it. You just wait until your opponent misses winning the point at 6-5.\n\nThe ball is served to you and you hit it in a nearly straight line toward your opponent. He does the old "edge" bump and sends it careening to your side, up, and down, until it's sailing at a high speed upward toward you.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|7-5 up win]], [[down|6-6 down lose]], [[stay|6-6 stay lose a]]?

By Keith Weatherby II

The ball comes up on you fast but you move your paddle up to meet it and it rebounds off the top of the screen causing it to come down while your opponent wasn't really paying attention. You win the point 6-5. You give your opponent a look like "Your head is not in this. Get your head in the game." You don't want to play someone who won't give it their all.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent and he makes it go upward toward you, but your paddle is only in the middle of the screen.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|7-6 up win a]], [[down|7-6 down win a]], [[stay|6-6 stay lose b]]?

An orange portal seems to open in the floor under the machine. As it falls through a blue one opens in the top and the machine continues to fall from ceiling to floor back to ceiling, causing the machine to fall forever.\n\nTHE END

Your opponent says the magic words, "Hocus Pocus by Focus!", wiggles his fingers, and magically wins the point. In fact you didn't even see it happen it was just suddenly at 5-6. More people gather behind you.\n\nYour paddle is sitting toward the bottom of the screen and the ball is served to you also going in a slightly downward motion.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-6 up win]], [[down|4-7 down lose]], [[stay|5-6 stay win]]?

On the previous point, the machine starts making slot machine winning noises and the coin-return starts spitting out quarters. The crowd instantly dives for free money, thereby stopping you from finishing the game.\n\nTHE END

A gray runs in and fires a ray-gun at the machine. The machine then disintigrates, and the alien runs out of the arcade.\n\nTHE END

You stand in a smokey arcade. While it's been a while since pong was created, it's still popular. You're hoping to keep up your winning streak. You step up to the machine and await a challenger.\n\n[[Continue...|Challenger]]

You try to move down really fast overshooting and miss the ball to lose the point at 5-7. There are cracks in your resolve now, and you're starting to think you may end up losing.\n\nThe ball is served toward you in an upward motion, and your paddle is two-thirds of the way down the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|5-7 down lose a dead]], [[down|5-7 down lose a dead]], or [[stay|5-7 down lose a dead]]?

You try to move down to hit it on the top of the ball but are too late as the ball makes it past you. You're now at 5-7. Your opponents fans stifle some snickering.\n\nYou move your paddle near the top this time, and the ball is served to your opponent who bats it upward towards your paddle.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|5-7 down lose b dead]], [[down|5-7 down lose b dead]], or [[stay|5-7 down lose b dead]]?

You stay where you are and the ball manages to hit the corner of your paddle which returns it to him. He also returns your volley and you go back and forth for several seconds, finally the ball breezes past you, causing you to lose the point at 5-7. Your opponent jumps around and does a little shadow boxing as if he just knocked you out.\n\nThe ball is served to you in a downward motion which should be easy considering you're also near the bottom of the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|5-7 stay lose a dead]], [[down|5-7 stay lose a dead]], or [[stay|5-7 stay lose a dead]]?

The ball goes down and hits the bottom of the screen and you're sure it's going to hit you in the middle, but to your dismay it goes just above and past your paddle. You're now at 5-7. You throw a fist down on the console with a loud crack.\n\nYou move your paddle near the top this time, and the ball is served to your opponent who bats it upward towards your paddle.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|5-7 stay lose b dead]], [[down|5-7 stay lose b dead]], or [[stay|5-7 stay lose b dead]]?

The machine starts making a strange noise and then disappears. In the next minute a large blue box appears in it's place, with the word "Police" on it. A man steps out of the doors and oddly enough he looks British.\n\nTHE END

Following the ball until the last moment you yell "Red light!". The ball stops, and you move your paddle, then yell "Green Light!" and it bounces back toward your opponent who misses it completely causing the game to be tied 6-6.\n\nThe ball is served to you in a downward motion which should be easy considering you're also near the bottom of the screen.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|7-6 up win c]], [[down|6-7 down lose b]], [[stay|6-7 stay lose b]]?

You decide to stay where you are only you start getting a little nervous as it comes closer and closer. When it almost gets to your paddle your hand twitches and you miss the ball tying the score at 5-5. A small grimace crosses your face but as far as anyone else knows you're just concentrating.\n\nYour paddle is in the upper middle of the screen. The ball starts coming your way and seems to be going in a slight upward direction.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-5 up win a]], [[down|5-6 down lose]], [[stay|6-5 stay win]]?

You start going up and manage to hit the ball which sends it to the other side. He also returns your volley and you go back and forth for several seconds, finally the ball breezes past you, causing you to lose the point at 5-7. He throws his right fist under his opposite arm as if flipping you off, but without the middle finger.\n\nThe ball is served to you in a downward motion which should be easy considering you're also near the bottom of the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|5-7 up lose b dead]], [[down|5-7 up lose b dead]], or [[stay|5-7 up lose b dead]]?

A smoke alarm goes off and the sprinkler system turns on shorting the Pong machine and making every one leave the building including you and your opponent.\n\nTHE END

You try to move your paddle up really quickly and overshoot the ball losing 5-7. Your opponent chuckles, and you re-evaluate your skills.\n\nThe ball is served toward you in an upward motion, and your paddle is two-thirds of the way down the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|5-7 up lose a dead]], [[down|5-7 up lose a dead]], or [[stay|5-7 up lose a dead]]?

Since you're not all the way down on the bottom you try to move the paddle even further down as the ball comes over, but sails cleanly over the top of it, you lose the point at 4-7. You shout, "aww man!" as you know you're losing pretty badly.\n\nYou set your paddle at the top this time, and the ball is served to your opponent who bats it down toward the bottom of the screen, and it starts coming back up.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|4-7 down lose dead]], [[down|4-7 down lose dead]], or [[stay|4-7 down lose dead]]?

Somebody accidentally trips and spills a drink they were holding on the machine. Soon you hear a hissing type of sound and see steam or smoke rising from the machine. It begins to melt, until it's a puddle leaving you staring.\n\nTHE END

The ball is zig-zagging at frightening speed as you try to track it. At the last moment you move down but move down to far and you lose the point for a tie at 6-6. You give him an imaginary tip-of-the-hat.\n\nThe ball is launched toward your opponent who comes down on top of it causing it to move toward the bottom of the screen and then back to the ceiling finally from the top of the screen in a downward motion.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-7 up lose a]], [[down|7-6 down win c]], [[stay|7-6 stay win a]]?

The machine has a yellow cabinet and the hole with the monitor has a shape like a windshield wiper had wiped away the yellow. You settle at the controls, spin it a few times, and plunk your quarter in. Exchanging volleys, you tie at 2-2.\n\n[[Continue...|4-4 a]]

Everything freezes except you as you notice suited men with nice hats come in. They notify you your oppponant was "off-plan" mess with the Pong machine, then leave. You realize you have now won the game just before everything resumes.\n\nTHE END

You and your opponent continue to go back and forth and back and forth. Pretty fairly matching each other. It gets pretty close to the wire 8-9-10 and finally it's tied 10-10. The ball comes down and you move up to meet it, but then make it look like you're going to hit it on the bottom. Totally expecting you to do a zig-zag shot your opponent gets ready. You move the paddle up hitting it normally. It goes down to the bottom of the screen and then back up to the top, but he spins the knob real fast making the paddle go up. As it looks like you're about to win his paddle bunts the ball by smacking it on the bottom sending it zig-zagging back to your side, only this time you're too slow to catch it and it moves past your paddle. You lose the game 10-11! Your winning streak is gone, time to go home.\n\nTHE END

As the ball comes speeding towards you, you don't move the paddle, you just watch the ball and at the last minute you spin the knob clockwise knocking the ball back in the same motion which your opponent manages to miss giving you the point for a total of 7-5. You grin a bit but your opponent doesn't find it amusing.\n\nYou set your paddle back to the middle and the ball is served toward you, you move down to meet the ball which rebounds and heads toward your opponent. Your opponent returns your shot and you start moving upward to meet the ball near the top.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-5 down win dead]], [[down|7-5 down win dead]], or [[stay|7-5 down win dead]]?

You and your opponent continue to go back and forth and back and forth. Pretty fairly matching each other. It gets pretty close to the wire 8-9-10 and finally it's tied 10-10. The ball comes down and you move up to meet it, but then make it look like you're going to hit it on the bottom. Totally expecting you to do a zig-zag shot your opponent gets ready. You move the paddle down hitting it normally. It goes up to the top of the screen and then back down to the bottom, but he spins the knob real fast making the paddle go down. Too late before the ball hits the bottom of the screen goes back up and misses the paddle. You win the game 11-10! You win again!\n\nTHE END

The ball hits the top of the screen near your paddle so you jet it down until you meet it and hit it on the corner which sends it zig-zagging back to your opponent. It appears to be too much to handle as he misses it trying to follow the ball. You form your right hand into a gun-like shape and blow on your pointing finger as if you cooling off a smoking gun as more people gather around.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent and he hits it on the bottom sending it upward toward you.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 down win b dead]], [[down|7-6 down win b dead]], or [[stay|7-6 down win b dead]]?

You ease the paddle down and meet the ball head-on. It returns back to your opponent who's hand twitches and causes him to miss the ball. You win the point at 7-6. You think to yourself that if he does this enough you'll have an easy win. Then you remind yourself not to get cocky.\n\nThis time the ball is served toward you towards the middle of the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 down win c dead]], [[down|7-6 down win c dead]], or [[stay|7-6 down win c dead]]?

You slide the paddle downward and meet the ball, easy as pie. Your return volley is also returned and you bat it back and forth, until he miscalculates and moves the opposite direction the ball is going in and loses 7-6. He shakes his head but then continues.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent who returns it in a near straight line toward the middle of the screen. You're near the top.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 down win a dead]], [[down|7-6 down win a dead]], or [[stay|7-6 down win a dead]]?

You go down and nick the ball on the corner send it speeding across. Your opponent just can't keep up and he's getting tired. He misses the ball giving you the ball. The score is now 7-6. Your fans throw up a small cheer.\n\nThe ball is served in your general direction slightly downward.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 down win d dead]], [[down|7-6 down win d dead]], or [[stay|7-6 down win d dead]]?

The ball hits the top of the screen near the corner and starts to go back down, and you just move it to where the ball hits the paddle in the center. Now you and your opponent are furiously trying to get the point, but he proves no good as you do another zig-zag move. The score is now 7-6. You throw your fist in the air a few times.\n\nThe ball gets served to you as you follow it to the top of the screen and then back down.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 down win e dead]], [[down|7-6 down win e dead]], or [[stay|7-6 down win e dead]]?

While it's going up you swing your paddle up but it doesn't get to the ball before the ball passes the paddle. You lose the point and are now at 6-5.\nYou smash the console with your fist as your opponent sneers. A few more people gather around the machine.\n\nThe ball gets served back to him and he returns a zig-zag volley back at you.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-6 up lose]], [[down|7-5 down win]], [[stay|7-5 stay win]]?

Suddenly a fat, older, woman with a rolling pin grabs your opponent by the ear, and from the conversation you glean that it's his mother and he was supposed to pick up some groceries. He's dragged out leaving the game unfinished.\n\nTHE END

You and your opponent continue to go back and forth and back and forth. Pretty fairly matching each other. It gets pretty close to the wire 8-9-10 and finally it's tied 10-10. The ball comes down and you move up to meet it, but then make it look like you're going to hit it on the bottom. Totally expecting you to do a zig-zag shot your opponent gets ready. You stay and the paddle hits the ball normally. The ball goes up to the top down to the bottom back up again and attempting to smack it on the edge your opponent moves the paddle down and completely misses the it! You win the game 11-10! You are again the champion.\n\nTHE END

You produce a magnet and proceed to put it near the window of the cabinet. The ball starts going in the direction of your magnet and then you just drag past your opponents paddle The score is now 6-5 in your favor. He raises an eyebrow.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent and he makes it go upward toward you, but your paddle is only in the middle of the screen.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|7-6 up win a]], [[down|7-6 down win a]], [[stay|6-6 stay lose b]]?

Out of nowhere a piano drops onto the machine smashing it to bits.\n\nTHE END

You decide to stay in place, only it's pure luck that the ball catches your paddle on the top corner. Your opponent then attempts to meet it only to twitch and completely miss the ball, giving you the point at 5-6. Your fans murmur.\n\nYou set your paddle near the top this time, and the ball is served to your opponent who bats it down toward the bottom of the screen, and it starts coming back up.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-6 up win]], [[down|5-7 down lose b]], [[stay|5-7 stay lose b]]?

You figure you have it by staying in the general location and yet you try to make sure you're tracking it properly by wiggling the control knob back and forth. You then miss the ball because you move too far down. And now the score is 4-6. More people come up behind and a few go behind your opponent to support him.\n\nYour paddle is sitting toward the bottom of the screen and the ball is served to you also going in a slightly downward motion.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-6 up win]], [[down|4-7 down lose]], [[stay|5-6 stay win]]?

Nolan Bushnell co-founder of Atari, Inc, and originator of Pong comes in with a dolly, unplugs the machine, puts it up onto the dolly and wheels it out, never to be heard from again.\n\nTHE END

You decide to move up because you're sure it's going to bounce off the bottom, and like you thought sure enough it does, only you don't follow it well and you overshoot where it was going and lose the point giving it to your opponent at 4-5. Your opponent starts getting fans behind him now, you don't mind though, because you have your own.\n\nThe ball is next served to your opponent and moves down from the top batting the ball back to your direction, but it's a pretty straight line from the middle. Your paddle is still in the middle.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-5 up win]], [[down|4-6 down lose]], [[stay|4-6 stay lose]]?

Three rough guys come in and walk over to your opponent and proceed to beat him to a pulp. Apparently he owed them money. You guess he won't be finishing the game any time soon, so you go home.\n\nTHE END

You just let the ball come to you. It bounces back and forth between sides of the screen, being returned every time you return one to him. It seems to be going in a straight line every time, so in order to make the ball go somewhere else you hit it on the corner and send it careening into your opponent's side causing him to miss the ball giving you 7-6.\n\nThis time the ball is served toward you towards the middle of the screen.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 stay win a dead]], [[down|7-6 stay win a dead]], or [[stay|7-6 stay win a dead]]?

The monitor of the Pong machine starts flickering and flashing different colors. It then goes out completely. While you can still hear the beep-boop of the ball hitting walls, you can't finish a game you can't see.\n\nTHE END

You decide to chill as the ball hits the bottom, comes up to the middle, rebounds off your paddle, up to the top, and then back down just skimming over your opponent giving you the point at 5-4. Nerdy fan looks as if he knew you'd get it. \n\n[[Continue...|5-4 stay win part 2]] \n

The next ball is served to your opponent. It moves down hits his paddle, and heads back towards you. It's a pretty straight line across the middle.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|5-5 up lose]], [[down|6-4 down win]], [[stay|5-5 stay lose]]?

A man with a showy suit, a cloak, and a top hat comes in and throws his cloak over the machine, which then seems to disappear as he removes it. He then bows and leaves.\n\nTHE END

You stay where are are but move the paddle slightly up and down as the ball hits the top of the screen and then comes down to meet your paddle. You return, and your opponent just misses the ball, for the point. The Score is now 7-6 with you leading. The crowd that's behind both of you has reduced their volume to whispers.\n\nThe ball is served towards your opponent and he hits it on the top sending it in a zig-zag pattern towards you.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|up win]], [[down|down win]], [[stay|stay win]]?

A punk kid with a switch-blade shows up and stabs the arcade cabinet. The cabinet starts whistling as it deflates, as if it were some sort of inflatable. The deflated cabinet lies in a pile on the floor much to your chagrin.\n\nTHE END

You ease the paddle up to meet the ball and it goes back toward your opponent who sends it to you, where you move down to catch it, and spend a few minutes just passing the ball back and forth. Finally the ball comes down at an angle and you go up again to meet it, hit it on the edge of your paddle and send it zagging back to your opponent who by this time is getting sweaty palms and slips on the knob causing you to win the point at 5-6.\n\nYou set your paddle near the top this time, and the ball is served to your opponent who bats it down toward the bottom of the screen, and it starts coming back up.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-6 up win]], [[down|5-7 down lose b]], [[stay|5-7 stay lose b]]?

You hear a horn blaring. It gets louder and louder until a truck smashes through the right wall, and then runs into the Pong machine and pushes it out the left wall.\n\nTHE END

A man and woman, an obviously magic act, stands beside the machine and opens an empty cabinet. The woman steps in, he closes it, re-opens it and she is gone. He recloses it, re-opens it, and she reappears. They bow and leave the empty cabinet.\n\nTHE END

You and your opponent continue to go back and forth and back and forth. Pretty fairly matching each other. It gets pretty close to the wire 8-9-10 and finally it's tied 10-10. The ball comes down and you move up to meet it, but then make it look like you're going to hit it on the bottom. Totally expecting you to do a zig-zag shot your opponent gets ready. You move the paddle down hitting it normally. It goes up to the top of the screen and then back down to the bottom, but your opponent spins the knob real fast making the paddle go down. As it looks like you're about to win his paddle bunts the ball by smacking it on the top sending it zig-zagging back to your side, only this time you're too slow to catch it and it moves past your paddle. You lose the game 10-11! Your winning streak is gone, time to go home.\n\nTHE END

You decide you're going to try bumping the ball from the bottom, so you ease the paddle down a bit, and right as the ball comes to the paddle you move up just missing the ball, making the score tied at 5-5. The pained look on your face is nearly undetectable, at least that's what you hope. You don't want your opponent to know when you're sweating it.\n\nYour paddle is in the upper middle of the screen. The ball starts coming your way and seems to be going in a slight upward direction.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-5 up win a]], [[down|5-6 down lose]], [[stay|6-5 stay win]]?

You play it cool and let the ball come to you, and as it does it bounces off of your paddle and to the opponent who tries the same thing but the ball manages to barely miss his paddle, giving you the point at 6-5. He gives you a look of recognition as if saying "Good round" since your skill was slightly better than his.\n\nThe ball is served to you and you hit it in a nearly straight line toward your opponent. He does the old "edge" bump and sends it careening to your side, up, and down, until it's sailing at a high speed upward toward you.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|7-5 up win]], [[down|6-6 down lose]], [[stay|6-6 stay lose a]]?

The machine grows legs and simply walks out of the arcade. Both you and your opponent stand there dumbfounded.\n\nTHE END

Someone mentioned your opponent was a world famous tennis champion. At the same time he pulls out a real tennis racket and starts magically controlling his paddle with it. You have no chance as he plays to the point win at 6-5.\n\nThe ball gets served back to him and he returns a zig-zag volley back at you.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-6 up lose]], [[down|7-5 down win]], [[stay|7-5 stay win]]?

You think because it's moving downward you're going to get it but the ball doesn't move down that far and you lose the point at 6-7. Your opponent doesn't do anything except fiddle with the knob a little bit.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent who hits it back as the ball goes down toward the bottom of the screen and then up towards you, who's about in the middle.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 down lose b dead]], [[down|6-7 down lose b dead]], or [[stay|6-7 down lose b dead]]?

Your challenger approaches the machine wearing a sleeveless jean-jacket over a white t-shirt, regular blue-jeans and a cigarette in his left ear. Walking up with an attitude, you see you're going to have to take him down a peg or two.\n\n[[Continue...|2-2]]

You mess with the knob a little bit and now you're settled in the middle of the screen where the ball actually bounces off. Your opponent tries to bump the top but misses the ball, an easy point win for you. Now you're at 7-6. Nerdy Fan looks over at your opponent and says "eat it!".\n\nThe ball is served in your general direction slightly downward.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 stay win c dead]], [[down|7-6 stay win c dead]], or [[stay|7-6 stay win c dead]]?

Noticing it's going to hit the top you start to ease the paddle down slowly, but you go too far and the paddle misses the ball causing you to lose the point. The score's now 6-7. Your opponents fans cheer, while your fans remain silent.\n\nThe ball is served towards your opponent and he hits it on the top sending it in a zig-zag pattern towards you.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|6-7 down lose a dead]], [[down|6-7 down lose a dead]], or [[stay|6-7 down lose a dead]]?

You decide to stay where you are, and the ball hits the top right near the corner and just barely hits the bottom corner of your paddle going back down. You and your opponent trade volleys until you finally fake him out by moving your paddle right when he was supposed to hit the ball causing him to move the opposite direction and giving you the point. Now you're at 7-6.\n\nThe ball gets served to you as you follow it to the top of the screen and then back down.\n\nDo you want to go [[up|7-6 stay win d dead]], [[down|7-6 stay win d dead]], or [[stay|7-6 stay win d dead]]?

You decide to stay where you are and wait for the ball, only it unexpectedly hits the top of the screen and goes past your side nowhere near your paddle, you lose tying the game 6-6. You look a bit confused, and he half-shrugs.\n\nThe ball is served to your opponent who returns it in a near straight line toward the middle of the screen. You're near the top.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-7 up lose c]], [[down|7-6 down win d]], [[stay|7-6 stay win c]]?

You stay and watch the ball coming to you. In fact, you're almost certain you won't miss. At the last minute your opponent smacks the machine. HARD. The ball jumps over your paddle and you lose the point to tie the game 6-6.\n\nThe ball is launched toward your opponent who comes down on top of it causing it to move toward the bottom of the screen and then back to the ceiling finally from the top of the screen in a downward motion.\n\nDo you want to move [[up|6-7 up lose a]], [[down|7-6 down win c]], [[stay|7-6 stay win a]]?