I remember the PONG sketch making me laugh uproariously as a kid. There was something about Franken's playing getting progressively worse as the conversation shifted, that just tickled me. They were basically creating physical comedy using only the image from a primitive videogame. Viewing that very simple sketch today may not impress me, but from the vantage point of 1976, and my own youth, it was fantastic.
(And it's important to remember that PONG was the very first videogame to become a pop culture phenomenon, setting the stage for Space Invaders and of course Pac Man, which would not arrive until years later.)
I remember the PONG sketch making me laugh uproariously as a kid. There was something about Franken's playing getting progressively worse as the conversation shifted, that just tickled me. They were basically creating physical comedy using only the image from a primitive videogame. Viewing that very simple sketch today may not impress me, but from the vantage point of 1976, and my own youth, it was fantastic.
(And it's important to remember that PONG was the very first videogame to become a pop culture phenomenon, setting the stage for Space Invaders and of course Pac Man, which would not arrive until years later.)