The 8 most underrated videogame characters ever

Pong ball

From: Pong
Remembered for: Being the ball in Pong
Forgotten for: Deserving as much attention as the sodding bats

Forever trapped in a two-dimensional back-and-forth betwixt a pair of bats that snagged all the attention for themselves was the Pong ball. It sorely lacked the respect it deserved as a character, and it's time to remedy that.

True, it didn't boast many of the qualities required in order to be considered a character -- a face, a sense of emotion, the ability to speak, or indeed any kind of personality -- but these were simpler times, and less was always considered more.

The ball was, in many respects, the protagonist of Pong; the hero fiercely battling to escape the clutches of two conspiring entities hell-bent on denying it freedom from a life of eternal repetition.

So while you may have lost the game when it escaped, you should've been delighted that it had won its longed-for independence.