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Pong, a Rare card
Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 174
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 250,000
Power 174 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Pong quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pong card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was created by Allan Alcorn as a ______ exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.
Answer
training. It was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. From the Pong article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Pong is a ____ sports video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades.
Answer
1970s. Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. From the Pong article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew 88 · Yanni 85 · Regina Spektor 82 · Pong 79 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.
- Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were so surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work that they decided to manufacture the game.
- Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, in response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pong article was read about 250,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Pong
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pong (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Chris Rand, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
