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all right welcome back CNET superfans welcome back to our live coverage of CES 2018 I'm Claire Reilly and with me is Walter Nagar oh here to show us a really cool spin on an old-school pong game we've been playing quietly before we started during the break and I'm not going well so this is you're probably familiar with the old-school Atari game pong but this is kind of like an updated coffee table version of the game I'm really okay alright I've not done well at this so what we've got here is a physical coffee table and this isn't actually a digital screen we've actually got physical sliders here knocking a pong ball back and forth Walter why have you decided to make a physical coffee table version of pong she wanted to make a homage to the first video game in history we watched pong back in the 72 he want you also incorporated designed Fayed maybe to make it functional we incorporate also speakers through bluetooth for example produce music and also play the game we want you to you know take some distance of the classic digital that kind of thing all right so I'm gonna serve it to you just press the button ooh yeah that's right the thing that I'm not going great at is getting the angles like I used to play this when I was really young and I always sucked at those like side angle balls but I love it how this just kind of zooms back how did you um how are we controlling this because it looks like it's a physical bar how are you actually controlling that underneath the table well yes if we make a mess in the floor with booties and magnets on gay skates it's like when you play with magnets between a minotaur table you know trying to move them around okay that's the kind of the puzzle all right so it's pretty simple and kind of high-tech and low-tech at the same time and it's probably a lot gosh I'm not going great this is a zero to four game is it hard to play or am I just really terrible at this or is it day one of CES and I'm already got some city miles on me you know on a beginner spiel what happens if we go to higher speed well okay awesome and it's also okay so its first two seven hasn't worked ideally for me it's also a there's also a Bluetooth speaker it may be a little out on stage I don't know how we go but we can play your own music through and you sync it up and it's got as it got a solo and two-player mode play against the sworn enemy so what's the what's the AI like if I try against AI how smart is your AI alright one player oh gosh see the AI isn't as cruel as you are Walter or maybe it is I'm holding my own oh gosh oh gosh ah and so how long have you guys been developing the table because it's obviously you've gone through prototype stages yes well the idea the consumption of idea wasn't of Daniel normally seguir was 2014 2014 it was a you know a long way from there that the company was invited to the white exhibition was one of the only companies in the Americas to go there from there we got to get key sorry these are was a major success Kickstarter so I have a duty right through a Kickstarter we were asking for 250 we've got 300 35k wow that's amazing I really love that I'm doing interview based mode here where I have to like talk to you whilst playing a relatively simple game but I just cannot do it this is like October last year we sign an exclusive manufacturing and distribution agreement with units technologies and so you're starting to sell it now that's the that's a great thing so who's gonna be blah who's gonna be buying what a base this it's around its $27.99 yeah okay we expect to see these I know why is that sound so cruel why do you have to just make it sound like I'm a failure Jonah plate to player again it's on okay so we're just choosing highest number plays first all right serve so do you reckon the superfans again you reckon the superfans are gonna buy this so do you reckon it's more likely that I'll go and play it down at my local pub it gives from 31 to 80 years old who have experienced the italia and also won some you know even with design that they can't put on the living room or recreation area okay also the bars because you can have a beer on a pizza yeah because it'll be a reminder of my constant failings I am so how much palm have you played now developing this game almost blown the air played too many hours would you say you're a bit of a probe I love a broad you know Danielle poor though more there the guy that great is he keep it he beats me all the time alright look yes I'm not great at this I'm so sorry but thank you so much for joining us today