Gnop: Avoid Hitting Paddle For High Score

Gnop might be the most austere game you play all week, though not necessarily the simplest: Bit Battalion have (as you'll follow from the title) turned Pong on its head by giving you control of the ball, rather than the paddle, and wrapped it in light poetic metaphor. The most surprising thing about it, though? That it took 38 years for someone to pull off such an obvious role reversal. Gnop [Bit Battalion]

• [Flashman]

  This is a real game-changer.

• [zikman]

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnop!

  • [Anonymous]

    oh whoops. Here I searched for Bungie in the comments real quick. Must be more thorough next time.

• [Anonymous]

  Bungie Software back in the day made a pong clong called Gnop! I think it came on the Action sack and maybe the Marathon Trilogy discs?

  Reference
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnop!
  http://www.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=HistoryOfBungie_p1

• [Phikus]

  While you’re gnipping, he’s gnopping!

• [Sean Bonner]

  This is nothing compared to Brave New Pong.

  http://www.monochrom.at/pong/

• [imag]

  Nice! I even like that it ends. These kind of things are worth exactly 5-10 minutes, and it’s nice that it doesn’t go on forever.

• [Anonymous]

  You mean 38 years, not 28. I was playing PONG in 1972-1973.

• [Anonymous]

  I had a the analog version… Gnip Gnop!