Saturday, February 4, 2006
Cool self-made vintage Pong cabinet
Update: Actually, the text below is all wrong. The box on the picture is an original Pong cabinet. The rebuilt cabinet is on this picture. Still could be nice with some faux wood and yellow paint.
On Tuesday, I’m off to Stuttgart to set up the computers and DVD players for the pong.mythos exhibition. Some people of the team are already busy setting things up for some days now. Andreas Lange (left), the exhibition’s curator told me that (as getting an original Pong cabinet is almost impossible) we’d have somebody build a lookalike cabinet. Now look at that box, it’s perfect. I want to have it as soon as the exhibition ends…
I’ll try to persuade the guy who build it to publish the construction plans. Everybody should have one of these.
My video podcasts about the exhibition will continue as soon as I’m in Stuttgart. I already know I’m sharing quarters with the Blinkenlights guys. Gonna have Spaß am Gerät.
hi philip,
ich bin verzweifelt auf der suche nach den konstruktionsplänen für den gelben original-pong-automaten … wir sind hier in linz/österreich soeben dabei, das grösste pong-spiel der welt zu konzipieren (für das kulturhauptstadtjahr 2009 in linz) und dafür müssten wir zwei kojen in etwa im massstab 6:1 bauen … sind die von dir angesprochenen pläne zugänglich?
merci, lg, fips
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