Surviving Pong Panic: When the Paddles Become Sentient and Terrified

In standard Pong (1972), your paddle's objective is to intercept the ball. In **Pong Panic**, the paddle AI is equipped with an evasion vector. The ball is toxic, screaming, and rapidly accelerating, while your paddle does everything in its power to avoid contact. The challenge shifts from traditional hand-eye coordination to herding: you must trap the terrified paddle against screen boundaries to force ricochets.

* **Corner Traps:** Force the ball into steep angles against the top and bottom walls. The paddle will back itself into the extreme corner where evasion options drop to zero. * **Speed Overclocking:** Each consecutive rally increases the ball velocity by 8%. By rally 12, the evasion vector calculation lags behind the ball's position, resulting in involuntary hits.