Classic two player competitive game of timing.

Get the ball past the opponent.

Scoring a point gives you +1 reward and your opponent -1 reward.

Serves are timed: If the player does not serve within 2 seconds of receiving the ball, they receive -1 points, and the timer resets. This prevents one player from indefinitely stalling the game, but also means it is no longer a purely zero sum game.

Official Video Olympics manual

Environment parameters

Some environment parameters are common to all Atari environments and are described in the base Atari documentation.

Parameters specific to Pong are

pong_v2.env(num_players=2)

num_players: Number of players (must be either 2 or 4)