Tim Rogers offers 10 games Pong is better than, including Angry Birds, Street Fighter, Madden, and, of course, Farmville.

  • 10xor01

    World of Warcraft.  Unless your campaign involves two characters playing Pong.

    • franko

      there’s a reason why it’s not on the list, and it’s not because they forgot to include it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/jorgen.fleisterman Jorgen Fleisterman

      World of Warcraft the MMO maybe. But WOW on a personal server with playerbots and auctionbots that let you enjoy the game and indulge your introverted nature at the same time is one of the best RPGs ever.

  • http://twitter.com/Polackio Matt Popke

    I notice that Minecraft is absent from the list. Just sayin’.

  • http://twitter.com/RezOtaku Barry Brown

    This is a joke, right?

  • archanoid

    Pong is fantastic. When I was trying to learn a bit about writing video games I did a re-implementation of Pong. It’s amazing how dead simple it is yet still fun.

    • retepslluerb

      Pong wasn’t actually written in the modern sense of the of, but implementes as a part-digital, part-analog circuit. 

      • ocker3

         Anything that can be done in hardware can be done in software, and visa-versa, it’s just that somethings make more sense in one medium rather than the other.

  • Spezz

    Tim Rogers is great. He gave angry birds 4 stars on actionbutton.net. Read his review of Shadows of the Damned. It’s hilarious. I think he worked on that game, but he might be lying.

    • DevinC

      I liked the review, and the site looks like it deserves a second look, but…is that actionbutton.net’s standard background image? Large parts of the image are the same colour as the text, making reading the reviews very difficult.  

      • Spezz

        you can change the theme if you click the action button in the upper right

        • DevinC

          Thank you!

  • Chentzilla

    Nice self-image Mr. Rogers has…

    • Boundegar

      It’s a fist!  I swear it’s a fist!

  • http://nomen-nescio.myopenid.com/ Nomen Nescio

    yes, but is it better than cow clicker?

    • mccrum

      The only thing better than Cow Clicker is Desert Bus.

  • Lis Riba

    This appears to be primarily a long ad for their $1.99 iPhone/Android game which supposedly avoids most of these issues..

  • Jellodyne

    Try ’9 games Pong is better than and Farmville’.

  • http://twitter.com/bsdf asdf

    “Forty years is a long time for something to exist without anyone else bothering to make anything better than it.”

    Tetris.