# Paddle Tennis Phosphor: motion graphics style

> A paddle-tennis arcade text animation: two paddles rally a square ball, and every cell it passes lights up until the word reads in blocky phosphor. Black-and-white tube glow, giant score digits and a final miss; for minimalist, nostalgic intros.

- Category: [Retro Computing & Games](https://aimotions.art/category/retro-computing-games/)
- Also known as: paddle tennis game, first video game, 70s arcade tennis, retro ball and paddles, crt phosphor glow, monochrome arcade, black and white video game
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Lively · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/paddle-tennis/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/paddle-tennis/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Recreate a 1970s paddle-tennis arcade screen that reveals [TEXT]. Black curved picture tube with scanlines and a soft green-white phosphor bloom; everything is plain white rectangles. Two tall paddles near the left and right edges, a dashed center net and two giant blocky score digits at the top. A square ball rallies back and forth at a fast, constant speed, bouncing off the top and bottom walls and leaving short persistence streaks. [TEXT] is hidden as a grid of chunky square cells in a 5×7 block font across the middle; wherever the ball passes near, cells light up with a brief overbright flash, painting the word in over three rallies. Keep rallying over the finished word, then one paddle misses, the score ticks up and the word decays like phosphor before the next serve.
```

## Visual DNA

- Monochrome white phosphor on black with green-tinted bloom
- Square ball with motion persistence streaks
- Word built from chunky scoreboard-style cells lit by the ball's path
- Dashed center net and giant blocky score digits
- Rounded curved-tube screen with scanlines and vignette
- Missed return, score tick and phosphor decay before the next serve

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Paddle Tennis Phosphor, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/paddle-tennis/