Pong is a classic game. Its first incarnations ran on storage-scopes connected to analog computers; and Atari’s TV version was the first popular PC game. But let’s ignore history for now-IrPong needs to be reviewed!
After startup, IrPong presents you the following screen. The bluetooth button is displayed only if you power up the bluetooth interface before starting the game!
Single-player mode is rather unimpressive, the game behaves like BreakOut and gets incredibly hard very fast(the Prison makes a good free PalmOS breakout clone):
Once two handhelds are connected via infrared or bluetooth, the fun starts. Each of the players takes one paddle, and needs to kick the ball off the field at his opponent’s side:
The bar at the top right is the ‘firepower’ indicator. Once full, you can launch a bullet at your opponent. Hit his panel, and he’s gone. Hit a brick, and its gone.
The obstacles available on some of the boards(use prefs for selection) add an extra bit of fun to the game; however, they sometimes fail to disappear on the ‘client’.
You control IrPong with the Up and application keys, the 5way doesn’t work. We tested IrPong on a Tungsten T3, IIIc, OS4 V and a Tungsten E2, the game worked well on all of them.
This review covered version 2.2, we uploaded it on tamoggemon.com for archival purposes. In addition, the web site of the programmer is here.
Overall, IrPong is a good multiplayer game. It is free, just 40KB big and well tested. The disappearing bugs can get annoying sometimes, but the game is playable nevertheless. Pong is an evergreen that everybody loves…all we can say is have fun.
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