TONG is a game that is the result of mixing Tetris and Pong: for Windows or LINUX or GPX/Wiz or Wii Systems!
http://www.nongnu.org/tong/What is TONG?
Sometimes, the total is greater than the sum of the parts. Tetris and Pong are classics, addictive and unshakable from their places in gaming history.
TONG is the result of mixing the two, capitalizing on the essential qualities of each classic and adding new twists of its own to make an explosive chemical reaction out of it all.
Why? Why play Tetris and Pong in the same place at the same time? It is weird, that's for sure. Tetris and Pong work different parts of your brain, parts that like to have your full attention to themselves. So right at first, TONG can seem a bit overwhelming. As it turns out, though, for all the zillions of variations and clones we've had of Pong and Tetris over the years, putting the two together actually makes the "twists" and "extras" make sense.
In Arkanoid, Break-out, Brick-out, etc, what are these blocks doing in the middle of a Pong game? In various Tetris clones, where do the new, non-four-block shapes come from and what's with the explosives and other bonuses? Well, when Pong and Tetris are going on simultaneously and in the same space, all that stuff and many more clever ideas suddenly aren't little novelties, they're sensible parts of a frantic game.
Downloads
The latest "official" release version 1.3 can be downloaded as:
source code
for all platforms
SlackBuild script
for Slackware Linux and compatible distributions
Fedora Linux: 'yum install tong' (thanks Jaromir Capik!)
Special biulds are also available for game consoles:
Wii version
playable via Homebrew Channel
(handy packager here
)
GP2X/Wiz version
for open portable gaming devices
Props to JduranMaster and -=STUCKIE=- for beating me to it, but I now have an "official", volume-enabled, game-menu-ready GP2X/Wiz port!
The previous release version 1.0 can be downloaded as:
source code
for all platforms
installer
for Win32 (MS Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/Vista/7/whatever)
Florian Forster has contributed Debian
packages:
apt setup instructions
(component is named "tong")
tong_1.0-1_i386.deb
"stable" binary
tong_1.0-1_i386.deb
"unstable" binary
Wart has contributed Fedora Core 4
packages:
i386 RPM
32-bit x86 binary
x86-64 RPM
64-bit x86 binary
source RPM
for any Fedora system
TONG is (was?) also in the Games section of the Source Mage
GNU/Linux distribution.
Packages are also available for FreeBSD
, Arch Linux
, and Gentoo
.
http://www.nongnu.org/tong/