Puppy Pong

The object is to keep the ball in play and hope your opponent misses.

A ball is launched onto the playing field. Using a flat paddle, you deflect the ball towards your opponent. Your opponent also with a flat paddle, does the same. Points are scored when the opposing player missed and the ball gets past him/her. The first player to ten points, wins.

The following text is found at httpwww.atarihistory.comarcadepuppypong.html BLOCKQUOTEThis is a very rare and rather unknown Atari coinop game. Basically it was Atari Pong without a coin box packaged into a very cute little table top wooden cabinet. According to Regan Cheng formerly of Ataris Industrial Design group Regan is the man responsible for the ominous Atari 5200 look and he also created Ataris all new hightech XL computer line styling. The Puppy Pong was originally conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell, Steve Bristow, and various marketing guys. The original idea was Snoopy Pong for which I designed a red dog house cabinet with Snoopy on top as you see in the comics. The original concept was called Doctor Pong, a unit for pediatrician office waiting rooms to keep children occupied. Regan also mentioned It was originally designed by Chas Grossman, Industrial Designer. He was the design manager for Pete Tachaichi and myself I believe for about 1 year 1975. The puppy house was left over from the Snoopy Pong, but painted yellow instead of red. It was the perfect game for small children and so simple to play all it took was a push of the button located in the center of the game under the main screen that would reset the game to play up to a winning 10 point score. The reason very few people have ever heard of this version of Pong in a Dog House cabinet is that the dog house had a similar look to another more famous dog house belonging to a rather popular beagle from the 70s.... Snoopy, according to Dennis Gregory who was the original owner of this Puppy Pong, apparently Schulz contacted Atari and requested that Atari not produce a game that too closely resembled his Snoopy Dog House So Ataris Puppy Pongs only spotlight in public was during its testing phase in the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater in California where it was placed on table tops in the restaurant for people to play while waiting for their pizza. This Puppy Pong has made its way to the Atari Historical Society courtesy of Dennis Gregory a former Atari employee and former Pizza Time employee.BLOCKQUOTE

The game is housed in a table top yellow dog house with Puppy Pong labeled along the bottom. A puppys head and paws stick out of the top. There is no coin slot since the player simply pushes the start button to begin a game.

Was only tested in Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatres in California.