Holland Game Design presents:

PING 2000, an Atari Falcon030 only game.

(Due to copyright reasons this game is called PING 2000 and not the 
trade marked name)

Written by J.G. van der Leij
Music by BOB
Graphics by E. van Scheijndel and J.G. van der Leij


Technical Specifications.

PING 2000 runs on any Atari Falcon030 with at least 4MB Ram with RGB 
monitors, PAL-TV, Multi Sync or VGA monitors up to 72 Hrz Non-Interlaced. 
The games requires about 3MB diskspace and is about 6MB big. PING 
2000 can be played by one or two players with joysticks or Atari joypads.

About PING 2000

PING was the first video game ever, when it was launched for mass 
market by Atari. Since then many video games have come and gone of 
which we have seen revivals as computer improved technically. But 
there has been no revival of PING until now!
     As the world leaps to the next generation of gameplay Holland 
Game Design has produced a ping clone with improved graphics and 
sound. PING 2000 will take you on a journey through time, and  
show you Ping has been a basic element of existence. We'll take 
you through six sectors and let you play those essential first 
moves in life. Through the first five sectors you have to pass 
twenty tests of increasingly more difficult Ping reaction moves.
     The first stage will be PING 20.000.000 B.C.: the birth of 
the universe in which massive energy fields collide with gigantic 
asteroids filled with rare elements. Huge gas clouds travel the 
vast amount of space. Here in deep space at the beginning of time, 
you'll encouter your first Ping 20.000.000.000 B.C. action.
      The second stage takes you to the time our little planet was
being terra-formed. In this huge bassin of living organisms there 
was a lot of bouncing up and down. Still uncertain in their ways 
little organisms began to spring and made their first important 
moves: Ping 2.000.000 B.C. moves. But watch out for those pieces 
of dead wood falling!
      At the third stage time has progressed a little further. The 
first humanoids have taken over the earth. With big bats they 
start bashing every skull they meet. But hey, they are not alone 
on this planet. They were forced to play Ping 200.000 B.C. even 
before your granny was born. Play it cool with the first ivory 
ball, while other tribes try to distract you their wooden balls.
     The fourth stage is one of the intellectual fundamentals of 
our civilisation. The basis for the original Ping was being laid, 
when the first two humans started playing tennis. Ping 1500 was a 
reality. Take your primitive bats and those balls to the other 
side, but donşt let the loosy ball boyşs ball confuse you.
     The fifth state is the wonderful world of Ping as we knew it 
in the seventies. Finally after all these years Ping has been computerized. 
Get into the computer and start playing those bits, but donşt get 
fooled by an occasional bug flying around.
     The sixth and last stage consists of one giant stage in which 
a terrible space war is being fought with great machines dumping 
electrical discharges at each other. Battle is fought throwing 
planets at each other. Can you stand the ultimate test?
     With an ever expanding universe, each stage grows bigger and 
bigger, the tests get harder and harder. Do you dare to try?