Retro Ping Pong

Retro Ping Pong - Classic - Skill

***Retro Ping Pong*** is a game based on *Pong*, which has an action mode, with different twists on the original gameplay.

## Instructions from Cool Math Games

*Use the arrow keys to move your paddle. In two player mode, the player on the left can move their paddle with W and S. Score 7 points to win the game!*

*Try action mode for all-new twists on the classic game. Each round has a special rule that will change how the game is played! Most of these are pretty self explanatory, but some of the special modes introduce alternate ways to win.*

***RETRO PING PONG TIPS AND STRATEGIES***

***KNOW THE DIFFERENT ACTION MODE GAMES***

*Classic mode is great, but if you play Retro Ping Pong for long enough you’ll eventually want to give Action Mode a shot. Action mode adds custom rules into each round. Knowing the different games beforehand will make you better prepared to play in action mode.*

*The action mode games include:*

* ***Secret Wall** - A section of the dividing line becomes an invisible wall. This wall prevents the ball from going into the other player’s court. Instead, the ball will just bounce back to the player who just hit it. If you want to score, you'll have to get the ball around it.*
* ***Fireball** - There's a ring of fire in the center of the field. Every time the ball enters the ring, the ball gets hotter and hotter and moves faster and faster.*
* ***Multiball** - There’s more than one ball on the field. Make sure you don’t let either of them get past your paddle. If one does, the other ball will keep bouncing around the field, and a new ball will spawn in center court. The balls can hit and bounce off each other as well. You have to score twice to win the round.*
* ***Big Ball Little Paddles** - The ball is bigger, but the paddles are smaller.*
* ***Fog Zone** - There’s a thick layer of fog going down the middle of the court. Whenever the ball enters the fog you won’t be able to see it move or hear it bounce off the wall. Trace the ball's path through the fog so that you can be in the right spot when it reappears on the other side!*
* ***Gravity Well** - There are voids on the court that mess with the gravitational field. Who knows which way a ball will go if it enters one of these fields?*
* ***Bumper Ball** - Five bumpers are placed in the middle of the court. If the ball hits one of them it will bounce off and go in a different direction. Stay sharp and try to anticipate which direction the ball will go after hitting a bumper!*
* ***Don’t Hit The Kitty** - There’s a cat on the court! If the ball gets past you or you hit the kitty twice you’ll lose the round.*
* ***Blaster** - You and your opponent both have blasters! Press Spacebar to fire your blaster at your opponent. Hit your opponent twice or get the ball past their paddle to score.*

***GET A FEEL FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE BALL***

*As you play, you’ll pick up different patterns. For example, balls that head down one side of the court will end up bouncing upwards when they’re served back to the other side. Start looking for patterns like these. They’ll help you preemptively place your paddle where it needs to be instead of racing the clock to get it there at all.*

***FIND A FRIEND***

*Two people can play Retro Ping Pong together on the same computer. The player on the left moves their paddle using the W and S buttons while the player on the right uses the Up and Down buttons.*

***READ OUR BLOG***

*We have a Coolmath Games blog dedicated to how to play Retro Ping Pong. There are plenty of tips, tricks, and strategies to get you winning games in no time.*

*Along with this, we have an entire blog written about games similar to Retro Ping Pong and the classic Pong from 1972. Check it out for some great gaming options!*

***WHAT ARE GAMES LIKE RETRO PING PONG?***

* ***Hangman**:* *Play the classic game with your friends!*
* ***Word Search**:* *Choose your category and find the hidden words!*
* ***Lavanoid**:* *Smash the bricks and find cool power ups!*
* ***Missile Command**:* *Defend your cities. Make every missile count!*
* ***Atari Asteroids**:* *The Atari classic is back!*
* ***Atari Pong**:* *One of the oldest games is back!*
* ***Atari Breakout**:* *Are you ready to breakout?*
* ***Shards**:* *Keep your ball in the air and break the bricks!*
* ***Astroballz**:* *Knock the planets out of this world!*
* ***Word Detector**:* *Unscramble the letters to find hidden words!*

***PLAY OTHER GAMES IN THE GAMES LIKE RETRO PING PONG SERIES***

* ***One Ping No Pong**:* *One Ping no Pong at Cool Math Games: Test your split-second reaction time in this golf and pong mash up. Angle perfect shots to knock out all the targets without losing control!*
* ***RedLine Pong**:* *RedLine Pong at Cool Math Games: Boing! Knock your ball in the air and watch out for crazy bounces in every direction. How well can you keep track of it?*
* ***Astroballz**:* *Astroballz at Cool Math Games: It's the classic game of breakout, in outer space! Move your spaceship to knock out all the planets.*
* ***Shards**:* *Bounce the ball into the breakout bricks and smash them to pieces. Rack up big combos using awesome power-ups. How high can you score in Shards?*

## Gameplay

In the title screen the amount of players, game mode, and difficulty of the computer (the latter only applicable in single-player) can be chosen by the player(s). After that, the game can be started.

Classic mode is similar to the original *Pong*, and is what the different minigames in action games are based on. The right paddle is controlled with the up and down arrow keys, and the left paddle is controlled by either the computer (in single-player mode) or another player using W and S (in two-player mode). A ball spawns in the middle of the court, and it moves in a random angle towards one of the players, ricocheting off the walls on the top and bottom of the screen, and off the paddles, if it hits them. If one of the players allows the ball to pass through the gap behind their paddle, their opponent gains one point. The first player to reach 7 points wins.