Concerning: Ping Pong

Ping Pong = a game played on a green table with "a net" across the center using a small white projectile often called "a ball." Play consists of hitting "the ball" back and forth across the green table over "the net" with hand-held wooden devices called "paddles." In a computerized simulation of the game ping pong, the "paddles" are represented by moving lines on opposing ends of the screen, while "the ball" is represented by a little green dot, often times in the shape of a square. Curiously, "the net" is not represented in the computerized rendition of "ping pong," and a square ball would not serve the proper function of game play in reality, making the simulation a poor and hollow mockery of the game ping pong although it sparked the creation of an enormous genre of entertainment called "video games."