Product Info
Title:
Smash Ping Pong
Developer:
Konami
Publisher:
Nintendo
Genre:
Sports
Price:
2500.00
Description:
Smash Ping Pong is a port of Konami's arcade game Konami's Ping
Pong, and is an unusual collaboration between the company and
Nintendo. The game itself replicates the sport pretty well, and either one
or two people can play it. The rules of the game are simple – one side
serves and the two players will hit the ball with a paddle back and forth,
defending their side. If the ball crosses the edge of the table after one
bounce on the defending side, a point is scored. A point will also be
awarded to your opponent if you hit the net or miss your serve, or don’t
bounce the ball on your side once when serving. There are three rounds
in total and whoever wins two first wins the game. Pressing Left or
Right on the controller will swing the paddle with either a forehand of
backhand stroke, which angles your hit in different ways. You can
smash the ball by pressing Up, except when serving. This sends the ball
at a fast speed across the table, but is trickier to properly time.
The FDS version adds an additional game mode that changes the
amount of points necessary to win, with Game A needing 11 points and
Game B requiring 21. However, whoever wins must do so by
two points, unlike the arcade game, which always ended when someone
got to 15 first. A few things were also changed to tie it closer to
Nintendo – Konami's penguin mascot Penta is replaced with Donkey
Kong, and the spectators are all a generic male instead of the varied
male and female faces that are in the arcade. The title screen also
replaces Penta with Disk-kun, but the animation plays out the same. In
terms of presentation, the sound isn’t quite as good as the arcade
version, and is noticeably missing the clacking sound of the paddle.
Conversely, it adds a voice for the referee. The arcade version was also
ported to several computers, including the Amstrad CPC, Commodore
64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum.