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This game is Pingpong plain and simple. You can alternate between various options, different speeds and colours - but the game is still the same.

When the game loads you are presented with an option screen, which is manipulated with the joystick, according to your own skills and preference.

The options include such things as speed, view of table, and power adjustments to various shots that can be used. For example, if you want your backhand to be more powerful than your forehand, then reduce power on the latter and add it to the backhand.

What's the game like to play? Well, once you start, the screen is displayed in either 3D or "flat" like the old Atari console. To be honest, I preferred it this way.

You can serve by just pressing the button and watching the ball fly over the net. If you put the speed on "hyperdrive" and then hit the ball with your most powerful shot, just watch it fly!

The rest of the game is played fairly simply, it just follows the rules of Pingpong. Except for the fact that you can ask the computer to make your paddle fly towards the ball, leaving you time to catch up on your stroke timing etc.

You can change the colour of the ball when in pause mode, but this seems pointless to me.

One of my friends who is hoping to take up Table Tennis professionally, and who is a computer fanatic, played this game with me on two players. He thinks that it's nothing new and is not even as good as the old Atari version. I have to say agree with him.