I'm here Adrian. You're not alone.

I haven't been to the show, but I know the catalog/book. I think it's a nice book, but there are some things I don't like about it.

First thing is (and that's not only a problem of this book) that it has only an american perspective on the history of pong: There are hardly any informations about the early german/european video game history in it and that would imo be nessacary for a german exhibition/book about pong/videogames. There are a lot of interesting questions which could be answered in a book about pong. For excample: When did the first arcade video games come to Europe? In which countries and when was the Odyssey released in Europe? How many units where sold? Why are cartridge based Pong systems mainly a PAL thing? Why were german TV manufactures so focused on building Pong games in their TV-sets? What about build-it-yourself instructions for Pong games published in magazines like Elektor? And so on.

Second thing is that if you write that Nolan Bushnell got the idea for the “Computer Space” arcade machine from “Galaxy Game” and you put a reference on this story it should be correct. I know you can find simular things in other books (for excample Claus Pias' writes in “Computer Spiel Welten” that Ralph Baer is a “former Tennis for Two-Player” without letting the reader know where he got his exclusive information from that Baer took part in Higinbothams' presentation in Brookhaven), but it always makes me wonder when authors try to construct the past and are not more carefully with references.

Can't say much about the art/pop/sience chapters. Anyway all in all the book is a nice read and anybody who is interested in Pong and the early video game history should give it a try.