02.20.09 WHERE DO I PUT THE QUARTERS?
This popped up a couple days ago on Youtube, and I can’t decide if it’s genuinely revolutionary or just the latest new piece of shit. This virtual air hockey table is actually a 103-inch plasma television with a touch-sensitive overlay that picks up your finger’s movements. Hence, no paddles necessary. No word on whether it can tell when you’ve hit puberty and suddenly lost interest in playing air hockey. This looks like it would be totally awesome at first, and then five minutes later I’d be all, “So does this TV pick up the Playboy Channel?”
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WHERE DO I PUT THE QUARTERS?
Ladies and gentlemen: Pong for the 21st Century.
That’ll be $5 per play. These plasma screens don’t grow on trees, yanno.
this sucks. you don’t even HIT the puck. You just push it. –
Zach Randolph
What’s next, ‘bating with no hands?
Fuck this shit…Half the fun of playing air hockey is trying to crack your opponent in the knuckles with that hard-ass puck!
The Playboy Channel on a screen that detects finger movement? Who do I give my down payment?
/has no money
//is wondering if Rent-A-Center will be carrying them
Yeah this would be cool if playing air hockey was still cool.
I agree with LCPL above: trying to smoke your opponent with the puck is mandatory.
Plus this is going to seem less visionary once 500 ADD riddled 10 year olds spill their capri sun and cookie crumbs all over the screen.
“You mean you have to use your hands?”… “That’s like a baby’s toy!”
Yes, but can it tell the difference between fingers and a pecker? Pretty sure I’m going to lay all of them on it.
A waste of a perfectly good 100 inch plasma TV.
The saddest part is that someone actually took the time to develop this. Wonder if they ever get laid? You can’t do something better with a plasma that big?
Give up back-to-back goals? Oh you better believe that’s a paddlin’.
Ya know what else has a touch-sensitive overlay?
Your mom.
/sad trombone
Next up, virtual virtual air hockey. “Wow! I could swear I was really playing virtual air hockey!”
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