A few months ago I played a vintage Pong arcade cabinet @ Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. It was the first time I ever played a real Pong cabinet. B

A few months ago I played a vintage Pong arcade cabinet @ Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. It was the first time I ever played a real Pong cabinet. Both my friend and I agreed it was exceptionally good despite being such a simple game. The experience of playing it felt very analog and responsive with no perceivable latency. Galloping Ghost is a huge sprawling arcade where you pay a daily rate and can play all the games with effectively infinite quarters. So we played dozens of games that night, and there were very few games with such immediacy in the controls. That lack of latency made you feel 100% responsible for any mistakes. It was surprisingly addictive and competitive because there didn't seem to be anything to blame in terms of lossiness/non-determinism between the controls and what's happening on-screen. You were to blame, and it implied you could easily be better next time.