Next-Generation Game Tables To Wow Your Friends With

Next gen foosball

In a span of six years a smartphone model can go through more facelifts than a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. Around for hundreds of years, most tabletop games —apart from a few bells and whistles—remain mostly unchanged from their archetypes. The ample difference in the number of revamps between the latest iTrend and your local joint’s ping pong table is as much a sign of the times as it is of market opportunism, but also a consequence of the old world philosophy that some things are best left unchanged.

Of course, if that were mostly true, we never would have had table tennis, billiards, or foosball to begin with. The times are always a-changin’ and the romanticized game tables of old are changing with them. Projection-mapped table tennis is just the tip of the next-generation iceberg.

Scroll down to access the rest of the iceberg and to see what your 21st Century weekend has been missing out on.

A Ping Pong Table With The Heart Of A Music Video

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Played on a graphical display surface, users are rewarded with digital explosions and sound effects every time two (or more) tops crash into each other. Instead of string, players use handheld devices to “remote-control” the tops through the use of magnets.

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