Rockstar's Table Tennis - trailer

It’s nearly 20 years on from the last summer of love back in 1988, and to celebrate SPOnG are designating summer 2006 as the summer of ping pong. Mainly because we are childishly excited about playing Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, which is out for the Xbox 360 at the end of May, and which we feel is going to replenish the UK’s rapidly dwindling levels of fun.

Fun, as we all know, is measured in units called glee-knots, with the UK average glee-knots per household having been in what was thought to be terminal decline, since that Ecstasy-drenched summer of 1988.

Now, SPOnG is not one to advocate heavy MDMA abuse or crimes of fashion such as wearing massive flappy kecks or bandanas ever again. But we have at times over the last 19 years, despaired as to what could be done to increase the average level of glee-knots in the average UK home.

Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis has solved this problem for us. There is so much fun packed into this simple, addictive, genius 360 game that the average household glee-knot level in tests has tripled shortly after Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis has been introduced into the family.

As SPOnG said in our recent preview, “What Rockstar has done with Table Tennis is simple and genius. It's said: 'table tennis is fun, let's make a table tennis game that combines everything that’s good about Virtua Fighter and Virtua Tennis - but let's make it better than those games too.' And it has, unbelievably, achieved this. And more. ”

And just check out this trailer right here if you dare to question our veracity.

High Res
Quicktime (5.8MB)
Windows Media (3.4MB)

720p HD Res
Quicktime (16.5MB)
Windows Media (25.9MB)

Never fear! The Anti-Despondency Party is coming to your house in the shape of an Xbox 360 game called Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis in May. Put those happy pills away and get practicing you backhands, smashes and topspins.