Pong with LCD and Controller

Pong was released by Atari in 1972; it’s regarded as the first widely popular arcade and home console game. It was converted to console by Atari later that year. It is based on table tennis and the games followed such as Arkanoid were based on pong.

This game does not require complicated graphics algorithms but will be enough to make the game look interesting and will not be that difficult to implement on the LCD and processor. They used Atmel AT90S8535 microcontroller for this project. And the ADC on the chip to read the positions of the potentiometer controllers. It is for two players playing simultaneously and it is challenging and fun to play against you by using both controllers.

The main piece of hardware was a 240×128 pixel LCD (ITM240128A).It comes with the T6963 LCD controller, which made using the LCD easy to do. The LCD requires 16V for the display itself and 5V for the controller. Another important part of the software was updating the ball location and checking if the ball has hit a wall or a paddle. The game works great and added enough challenges to make the game interesting.

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