FOX News: Philly pong: City gets ready to play iconic game on building facade

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Philly pong: City gets ready to play iconic game on building facade Apr 4th 2013, 15:33 Published April 04, 2013 Associated Press PHILADELPHIA –  Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of Pong. The classic Atari video game will come to life on the facade of a 29-story skyscraper. Hundreds of built-in LED lights at the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. The effort is the brainchild of Frank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor. Pong will be played April 19 and 24, to bookend an event called Philly Tech Week. The black-and-white arcade game introduced in 1972 had no complicated graphics, just geometric shapes. Players controlled digital paddles and tried to hit the ball so their opponents could not return it. A home version paved the way for the game console industry. In Philadelphia, gamers will control their paddles from afar, standing across the Schuylkill River from the building.

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