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Take the idea of Pong with powerups and being extreme, but try and make it more extreme. The game just didn't come off as extreme. Remake it and call it like Pong Xtreme, have great graphics, like a black background and bright yellow and blue colors with a lightning feeling. Have the pong bar start off a lot faster, have powerups continue on after scores, make some powerups timer based like the invisable paddle. Make good powerups go away if u miss and ur opponent scores. Do something like +2 for every score and -1 for every miss to mix it up. Make it feel more fluid, more intense background, better sound effects, and so on.