They call it Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, and Rockstar Games does indeed present table tennis. Rockstar Games' video game contribution to this popular sport or mere cult phenomenon, this determination depending mostly on your nationality, is very definitely table tennis, not Ping-Pong. Table tennis is an Olympic sport - a medal sport, no less. Ping-Pong is a household item for which you eventually lose all the parts, save the table and perhaps the net.
Table tennis is a cutthroat competition hosted in packed-house Beijing auditoriums. Ping-Pong is played after Christmas dinner, in the garage with a couple of space-heaters turned up full blast. Table tennis, on the other hand, is the real deal: a sport requiring sharp wits, keen eyes, athleticism, agility, strength and physical stamina. The term Ping-Pong is now a Parker Brothers trademark - fun fact: the formal Chinese name for the sport is derived in part from the trademark - for a leisure game dating back to the late 19th century.
