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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 (in a sense :^) parts of a frantic game.  

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 (in a sense :^) parts of a frantic game.  

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http://nongnu.org/tong/tong-wii.zip

 

File size is 35M, most of which is music from the very talented Marcus Hirt and Jared Burke.

== Controls ==

== Controls ==

There are many different rules in Tong, which dictate what happens when Tetris and Pong elements collide.  You can see and tweak all of these options, as well as how and when the rules change during gameplay, in the "Rules/Difficulty..." menu.

There are many different rules in Tong, which dictate what happens when Tetris and Pong elements collide.  You can see and tweak all of these options, as well as how and when the rules change during gameplay, in the "Rules/Difficulty..." menu.

== History ==

== History ==