# Coffee Table Pong

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-table-pong/647312>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 15, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-table-pong/647312 "2013-01-15T19:07:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-table-pong/647312/1 "2013-01-15T19:07:39Z")

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Anyone remember these? The TV screen was built into it. All it played was Pong.

[Looked a little like this new version.](http://www.surface-tension.net/images/gallery/dual/dual_2.jpg)

A friend of mine had one in the 70s. We wasted a lot of time on it. I wonder if any original units are still out there being used?

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-table-pong/647312/2 "2013-01-16T22:18:54Z")

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I’m sure somebody still has one. I don’t have a cite but plenty of members of Generation X collect retro electronics. I’ve got Atari 2600’s, Commodore 64’s, various pong clone consoles, and a bunch of other things to inflict upon my heirs when I die.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-table-pong/647312/3 "2013-01-17T00:13:41Z")

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I’ve never seen coffee-table Pong, but I remember seeing a coffee-table Ms. Pac-Man when I was young.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-table-pong/647312/4 "2013-01-17T00:51:26Z")

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Yeay, I’m not crazy!  
At least, not as far as this memory goes.