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A game and a musical instrument for two players, each at opposite ends of the table tennis table, each wielding a bat fashioned so as to produce whatever eastern percussion sound - saron, angklung, gong, regong - is desired, the ball itself being appropriately felt-covered and bouncy, such that when,
in the course of a game, ball and bat connect, a sweet note is struck. Groups of competitor virtuosi may gather in such acoustically sound gym halls as may be convenient, tables arrayed with pleasing symmetry, to perform either perfectly timed multi-instrumental musical pieces (such pieces being scored in a manner equivalent to chess) or to embrace the competitive and produce instead free jazz.
Pinging Pong
Pinging_20Pong
by DesertFox. [calum, May 13 2008]
ping-pong ping-ball
ping-pong_20ping-ball
by po [calum, May 13 2008]
Free Jazz
http://www.allmusic...ll?p=amg&sql=77:450
[calum, May 13 2008]
The Ting Tings
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/The_Ting_Tings
[normzone, May 13 2008]
The Goons Ying Tong song
http://www.youtube....watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc
for those who just don't get it [xenzag, May 13 2008]
Ting Tong
http://www.youtube....6KY&feature=related
It IS Ting Tong! [gnomethang, May 13 2008]
Steel Drum Urinals
Steel_20Drum_20Urinals
by lostdog. [calum, May 15 2008]
Ting Tong
http://www.youtube....watch?v=rEpOW3Z-btA
No ping pong [wagster, May 15 2008]
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One bat could make a tiny ping, and other
a massive, ear shattering bong.... I have
no idea why this would be an improvement
on the idea, but somehow I know that this
variation is the only one worthy of
development. Let me know when you've
got it working ! + |
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Did anyone ever play IK+ on the
Commodore 64? |
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Howabout "cheech-chong" for the druggie market? |
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If each bat emitted a puff of rancid gas
every time the ball was struck could this
new game be called the Pingping
Pongpong? |
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/Did anyone ever play IK+ on the Commodore 64?/ |
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Yep. Are you hinting at those levels where balls would come at you from either side, and in 2D you would paddle them away with one's karate prowess? Man that was awesome. |
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The obvious sounds to recreate would be the 'beeps' and 'boops' from 'Pong.' |
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<does best Walkin impression> |
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[Texticle], that is exactly what I'm talking
about. On the higher levels as it gets
increasingly more manic and the pitch of
the clangs rises with the speed of the iron
balls - that's the sound I'm thinking of. |
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They just don't make games like that any
more. Have there been any fighting games
since in which you fight one on one on
one? |
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//One bat could make a tiny ping, and other a massive, ear shattering bong//
This, this being here the use of different paddles for the creation of differing noises, is pretty much what I was aiming for, though I realise now that the hasty drafting of the idea text doesn't necessarily give that impression. At one end of the scale, a massive sports arena filled with a 20 x 5 arrangement of tables, players grouped either in a pseudo classical orchestra heirarchy or in whatever complex scattering of instruments the piece requires and at the other end of the scale, a smoky snooker hall retofitted for a 2 or 4 man free jazz cacophony. |
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//Did anyone ever play IK+ on the Commodore 64?// |
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Anyone remember Logan's Run? I was quite young at the time, but was absolutely fascinated by the computer generated yell when your character fell to his demise. |
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"I put my pants on, just like the rest of you, one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records." |
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Stepping away from the gamelan, perhaps this could work with a steel drum approach, with lostdog's piss-orchestra playing alongside. |
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