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** There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.

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** There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame [[Platform/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.



** ''Pong'' itself can also be considered this. While ''Pong'' was the first successful commercial video game, it was not new - the Odyssey beat it out by a few months, and there's proof that Nolan Bushnell saw and perhaps played the Odyssey before ''Pong'' was made.

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** ''Pong'' itself can also be considered this. While ''Pong'' was the first successful commercial video game, it was not new - the Odyssey beat it out by a few months, and there's proof that Nolan Bushnell saw and perhaps played the Odyssey before ''Pong'' was made.made.
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* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.
** There was even a non-electronic version. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HpasrGoeI TV Tennis]] had a motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.

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* FollowTheLeader: FollowTheLeader:
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There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.
** There was even a non-electronic version. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HpasrGoeI TV Tennis]] had a motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.it.
** ''Pong'' itself can also be considered this. While ''Pong'' was the first successful commercial video game, it was not new - the Odyssey beat it out by a few months, and there's proof that Nolan Bushnell saw and perhaps played the Odyssey before ''Pong'' was made.
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** There was even a non-electronic version. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HpasrGoeI TV Tennis]] had motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.

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** There was even a non-electronic version. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HpasrGoeI TV Tennis]] had a motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.
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** There was even a non-electronic version. A motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.

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** There was even a non-electronic version. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HpasrGoeI TV Tennis]] had motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.
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* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.

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* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.them.
** There was even a non-electronic version. A motorized arm with a light on the end of it would bounce back and forth under a "screen". Knobs controlled paddles that would deflect it.
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* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.
* DemandOverload: The original arcade machine malfunctioned within ''days'', due to an overflowing coin box.

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* DemandOverload: The original arcade machine malfunctioned within ''days'', due to an overflowing coin box.
* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.
* DemandOverload: The original arcade machine malfunctioned within ''days'', due to an overflowing coin box.
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* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.

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* FollowTheLeader: There were dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations of the game (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even the Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.them.
* DemandOverload: The original arcade machine malfunctioned within ''days'', due to an overflowing coin box.
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* FollowTheLeader: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual game consoles! Even Nintendo got in on this with the UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame.

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* FollowTheLeader: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of mini-"consoles" made which featured variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual (i.e. Tournament 1000 by Unisonic, APF TV Fun, the Wonder Wizard, the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Sears Super Pong Tele-Game, Colorsport VIII, the Ricochet, TV-4 4-Way Video Game, Volley VI, Coleco Telestar/Telestar Arcade, etc.) Even ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s'' very first game consoles! device, [[UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame Color TV Game 6]], was a Pong clone. Even Nintendo got in on this with the UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame.Fairchild Channel F and RCA Studio II, the first game systems to use cartridges, had a Pong game made for them.
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* FollowTheLeader: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual game consoles!

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* FollowTheLeader: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual game consoles!consoles! Even Nintendo got in on this with the UsefulNotes/ColorTVGame.
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* PortOverdosed: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual game consoles!

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* PortOverdosed: FollowTheLeader: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual game consoles!
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* PortOverdosed: Back in its peak years, Pong was one of the most heavily ported and cloned video games ever made! There were literally dozens of variations or knockoffs of the game released as Individual game consoles!

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