Pong (I never saw Pong)

Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games. It is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. The game was originally manufactured by Atari, which released it in 1972.

I think possibly the writer is thinking of Ping-Pong, another name for table tennis.

The writer is definitely referring to Pong the "original" video game. You can tell by this quote:

Direct reference to video games.

Here is a link to what Pong is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

I wasted too much time and quarters on 25 cent draft while playing Pong when I was in university

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Thank you very much for your help, everyone. I see.