First game to make?

For those of you that have some experiance in java, what would you recommend begginer programmers to create that would give them a nice example of the things that they will have to program when they get into the more advanced games?
I've heard that tetris is a nice game to do, but is there something else, mabye something even before that?
ReptileKing234
A voice of reason in a world gone mad

I haven't made a pong. Does that mean I can't
program?Don't sweat it Kayaman, this is an excerpt from a forum from the 1980's by someone who's now a senior programmer for Ubi Soft and did some of the coding for Splinter Cell on XBox.
I'm havin' diffiulty getting this C language to output 'Hello World' > to the VDU; does that mean I can't program?
P.S. I've just heard this new band, 'Bon Jovi', they sound great!!Lol.

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[http://apollo.occc.edu/java80/Game.html|http://apollo.occc.edu/java80/Game.html]
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sam_misled wrote:
It is kind of like Duck Hunt but obviously not as cool. If anyone wants to take a look at it heres the link:
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look at the Java2D demo that comes with the JDK
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Practical Java Game Programming
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584503262/102-3570681-1096110?v=glance

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http://members.tripod.com/~licher/galacticpanic.html
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Here are some promo code :
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