PONG MECHANIK

TAKING

THE “VIDEO”

OUTOF

VIDEO GAME

Most people program video

games. Niklas Roy built one,

literally. The 30-year-old from

Berlin, Germany, constructed

a fully mechanized facsimile of

one of the granddaddies of

video games, Pong.

By Howard Wen

Photography courtesy of Niklas Roy

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