November 01, 2025

Programming effort for Pong videogame for different decades

 

The task is to write a pong clone including two paddles, a ball and a visible score. The constraint is that only tools are allowed which were available in a certain decade of computer history.
year
description
Programming effort
1985
BASIC on 8bit homecomputer without permanent access to the device
40 hours
1985
BASIC on 8bit homecomputer with permanent access to the device
20 hours
1995
C in MS-DOS
15 hours
2010
Python with pygame
5 hours
2025
Javascript generated by Large Language model
1 hours

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