The creation of games was always in the mind of the engineers. From the start of
engineering scientists always thought about how to create something to entertain
themselves, not only the required research work.
The beginning of the electronics gave big opportunities to the engineers to create
games. The first games were also blinking lights and LEDs, but the real games could be
made after the introduction of the displays.
One of the first games created was the predecessor of the Pong game, which original
name is Tennis For Two, developed on oscilloscope and created by William Higinbotham
in 1958.
On oscilloscope there were created two paddles and a ball, which could be hit by the
paddles, if the ball was missed, the other player got a point.
We wanted to reproduce the history, but on FPGA and after on a standalone chip.
We wanted to recreate the Pong game from scratch, by drawing the paddles and the
ball, panting the background and displaying it on a computer display.
We chose this game, because it one of the big classic games and it needs not so much
drawing, but it’s really much fun to play.