Residents of Newton, Massachusetts recently got the chance to witness what could be described as one of the most epic video game battles of all time.
While many people spend their nights sitting on the couch watching TV, Newton resident Jerry Reilly and his friend Scott Wilson utilize their time coming up with schemes to entertain the public, the Newton Tab reports.
Their latest project, deployed October 29, was a 100-foot adaption of the 1970s Atari game Pong on the Echo Bridge in Newton, a suburb of Boston. Reilly and Wilson rigged a computer to a gaming projector to display a larger-than-life video game screen. According to the Newton Tab, the two men set up the projector so the image on the computer was cast in bright lights onto the dark tree line below the bridge.
As people passed, Reilly and Wilson invited them to grab an over-sized controller and join the action.
“[Reilly] has a history of inventing insane stuff, and ‘King Pong’ is a manifestation of that,” said Wilson. “Virtually since the time that I met Jerry, he has been getting me involved in these pursuits of imagination.”
Gamers who want to emulate Reilly and Wilson’s example, or scale down to more practical levels, can attach their own computer or gaming console to an HD-TV, LED monitor or
DLP projector to play games in massive, crystal clear quality.
