Posts Tagged ‘High’

State of the Town lunch price isn’t excessively high

Monday, April 4th, 2011

State of the Town lunch price isn’t excessively high
It might sound like an April Fool’s Day joke, but it isn’t.

Read more on Arizona Daily Star

2010-01-17 High Stakes Ping Pong 3

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

ping pong

Image taken on 2010-01-17 12:49:46 by JanetandPhil.

Centennial High too much for Cougars

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

Centennial High too much for Cougars
Their special teams are special. Their defense may have the Central Section’s premier player in linebacker Jared Norris — and he’s surrounded by studs.

Read more on The Fresno Bee

Who thinks starting a Ping Pong Club in high school is a good idea?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Currently I’m in 11th grade and is starting to create a Ping Pong club. Although club submissions are over I plan to start one in the 12th grade. I play ping pong and my coach is willing to donate a table to my school.

Would it be a good idea to create a club, so I can have something to say in my college resume?

I play table tennis seriously and go to competitions, so I might want to start a club. Any comments on this would be great!

77 Ping Pong Hits – My High Score so far…

Sunday, April 25th, 2010


Ping Pong game 77 hits my highest score. Game played at myfavoritepcgames.surfthewebfree.com

Matrix Ping Pong – Marshall High School

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010


Marshall High School did a version of the Matrix Ping Pong game as part of a surreal play, and they won the state drama competition. Mercedes Marple played the Japanese school girl ping pong player.

Why Online Games Are Shifting To High Gear

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

We see thousands of people playing online games such as tetris, ping pong, mario bros, super mario etc for free but despite its history dating back to 1970s, for most people online gaming began with the explosion of Internet in 1993 and with the advent of Doom and Warcraft sometime in 1994 or 1995. This got further boost with publishers starting to add Internet connectivity to computer games in 1994-95.

The media, in fact, have themselves been ignorant about online games history. As far as they are concerned, online gaming just coincidentally happened when their advertisers started producing Internet-capable games.

Serious online gaming began with the first interactive online game called ADVENT. In fact networked gaming got conceptualized with ADVENT. Networked gaming had users playing against each other within an online fantasy world. The first networked game was called Mazewar, a game which involved networked players traveling through a maze and attempting to kill one another.

Next came the interpersonal interaction in a multi-player environment. The first such game was called DUNGEN. DUNGEN had players competing against one another to complete a series of quests. DUNGEN provided with new settings and players each time the user logged on.

The late 1970’s saw the start of video game craze with more and more households getting computer savvy. As a natural corollary, people started writing their own games for the home computers. These programming hobbyists traded and sold these home-grown games in local markets.

Other changes in the 1970’s were home gaming consoles which used game cartridges. That meant the people could collect games cartridges for one base unit instead of having bulky game console systems.

The 80s – some pause before the storm 1980’s saw growing craze for the video and computer game craze, but online gaming wasn’t on the horizon yet. New games with better sound and graphics were introduced and gained popularity. Pole Position and Pac-man were two that achieved big popularity. It was during 1980’s when Nintendo introduced its first gaming system.

The 1990’s saw the phenomenal growth in both popularity and technology mostly because of the rise of 3-D and multimedia.

The late 1990’s saw the exponential growth of the Internet, MUDs (multi-user dungeons) which made online games wildly popular. New and improved graphical interfaces had people all over the world playing against each other not only in FPS games but also in real time strategy games (RTS games) as well as third person games like Grand Theft Auto.

This was also the period when websites started offering online games such as tetris, ping pong, mario bros, super Mario, and other free online flash games and non-flash based games free for playing after registering with them. This really pushed online gaming into the popular psyche.

Early years of the 21st century were dominated by the DVD-CD-ROM. It has changed the way online games are played. The latest gaming systems such as Sony’s play station and Microsoft’s X-box have networking capabilities to enable people play with each other in real time from all over the world. Exponentially growing broadband internet services have made playing these online games possible in true sense of the word.