all games are not created equal

Pong was the beginning of it all.  It was two rectangles moving around the screen hitting a square back and forth.  No fancy 3D graphics, no single player mode, no online multiplayer.  But what it did was make people want to play video games.  People lined up to play because it was such an amazing new concept.

Now, what has Halo 3 done for us?  Its given us another cool game to play.  It didn't bring new people into gaming really, not like Pong did.  It's a fun game, but that's not what I'm trying to get at in this comparison. 

Pong helped define an industry, Halo 3 just helped it along.  Pong was a simple concept that did amazing things.  Halo 3 was just another sweet game.

Why pong might have started the popularity of gaming, tetris is the game that is still played widely today. People still play tetris on various platforms, gameboy and Ti calculators to name a couple as well as the wide support online for the game. The lasting effects of tetris is what makes tetris better than pong.