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    "Yet another cheap remake that adds nothing to the original!"
 
                          
			    Sprong! v1.0

                 By Hellbent Deathspew & OverClocked


Sprong! - an absolutely amazing, state-of-the-art, bilinear filtered,
          triple buffered, double mipmapped, dynamically recompiling
          version of Pong that also does your laundry . . . we swear!


Profound Gameplay Concept - Uh...try not to miss the ball. 
                            First one to 15 points wins.

Starring - Ad Banner man, Green, Pretzel, Shaq, Sprout's head, 
           and one third of Trio the Punch

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Controls:

Be sure to set up your custom controls under "players" in the options!

Default is:

Player 1 - up   = "Q"
           down = "A"

Player 2 - up   = "up"
           down = "down"  (who would have thought?)

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Background - I was chatting with Peter Molyneux the other day, and he
             said "Gawd damn, d00d, it would rok if u did a PONG remake
             with your OverClocked characters!" So, I called up Miyamoto
             and Yuji Naka, and they were both really hip on it.
             Given such awesome support, I knew the idea was golden, but
             I needed an ace programmer who had l33t skillz and could
             give those quake and UT guys a run for their money with
             an AWESOME game engine.  Only one person fit that
             description - Lord Hellbent Deathspew of the infamous
             Bloodlust software!  Gave him an email, he was cool with
             everything, and thus Sprong! was born.  To my millions of
             fans the world over, I can only say that I hope you enjoy 
             what we've come up with . . . most of the credit should go
             to Hellbent, for his years of work on this project, but my
             associates Pretzel and Green helped out a bit.  And to 
             Epic, Id, and Sierra: Sorry for cutting into your market
             and giving you some serious competition, but that's just 
             the way the world works . . . 

                              - Some Insane Nobody who runs OverClocked  


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Known issues - * "Buttons 1 and 2" listed under controls, don't do anything.
               you can still press them if you want . . if it makes you
               feel saucy . . . someday, something may happen!

               * When run on a Pentium III 1ghz with a gig of ram,  a
               geforce, and a 21" monitor, it makes us extremely jealous
 
               * Game may crash / not function if you hit your computer
               repeatedly in an excited, inflamed rage

               * Seems to run a lot faster and be a lot more fun after
               visiting OverClocked and clicking on all the ad banners;
               we're still trying to debug that, but until then . . . . 

               * May induce extreme boredom if played for durations of
               of over 30 . . . . . well, 20 minutes

               * May lead to extreme sexiness . . we don't quite know why

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Future Plans & - Hopefully, I'll be able to add some things myself, as Hellbent
Disclaimer       is busy programming his next opus and doing the numerous
                 great things that he does . . anyone with a lot of Game
                 Factory experience should email me and we'll talk (help
                 wanted!) . . . this game can be distributed freely except
                 on certain emulation sites run by people who have names that
                 rhyme with "Bim Peckel", cannot be packaged with other
                 software and sold for profit unless you're completely
                 insane and send me and Hellbent $50 and a tasty pudding
                 snack, and must not be altered in any way, punishable by
                 castration or extended hours with THQ games.  Special
                 thanks to YOU for playing!!

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Sprong! v1.0 makes no guarantees on its effects upon your poor,
innocent computer, and is copyrighted 2000 OverClocked and
Bloodlust Software . . special thanks to SHAQ for agreeing to
be in our game (we told him it was for charity, so . . ) . . 

email creator@overclocked.org with feedback (as long as you
absolutely love it) suggestions, or offers of assistance.

visit these historic sites:

http://www.overclocked.org
http://www.bloodlustsoftware.com
		
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             This has been another unnecessarily long readme