Great game! I love how quickly it gets chaotic

nice, another quick PICO-8 entry! if only we had atari-style paddle controllers for zoomy ball-bouncing… it could grow even more chaotic with that level of control!

Very impressive considering you only spent a few hours on it! It's a clever spin on an old classic. My only suggestion is to make the fireballs either more random in direction or give the player control over them based on their paddle velocity - at some point I was just stuck in a stalemate with the AI because the only balls on the screen had almost 0 y velocity so neither paddle had to move to do anything.

Interesting premise, enjoyed the game. I think I wish my paddle was a bit faster, because it would allow me to catch balls for a little longer (since at a certain point, fireballs will spawn where you aren't physically capable to catch all of them, causing you to lose). 

great game! The mechanics is straightforward and the difficulty increases as the balls increase in speed and number, the art is simple which gives emphasis on the skill and difficulty,  keep it up!

This is a pretty cool game, the multiplying balls is a neat mechanic.

I love the aesthetic on this game and the simple mechanic made for a really fun experience. Great job!

Clever use of the restriction for a pong game, it was fun! I need to try pico-8 dev some day

That escalated very quickly. Really fun to play!

Very fun to play :)

Bonus points for pico-8

Wow this got hard quick. The chaos was pretty fun, though. Nice job!

First of all: I love the concept. It was really interesting to find such a new approach to Pong! Old classics never die. 

If you allow me, I would review the mechanics in a little detail:

The AI is quite strong in the early game. It took me a loooong time to take the first score. Also with two balls there were a lot of shootbacks until I finally made it to the third ball. With the third ball on board, the game get's hot instantly. Now it begins challenging the player, what I really like.

A major improvement would either be: 

Speed up the final heat balls (yellow ones) ; Random Up the strength of the AI (reaction time determined by a little random value) ; differentiate the collider sections of the paddle to make variations of shootbacks possible (shoot back in different angles)

But all in all I really enjoyed the game and the concept so far. Great Job! Super inspiring.

Started slow, but moved into the action pretty quickly. I loved the interface; It made me feel like I was holding an old GameBoy! Good job!

Lacked on inspiration and style, though i still had alot of fun playing, wish you could control the direction of the balls by the position of your paddle. Overall it was a fun 5 mins, great work!