"I'm Completely Fascinated With this Handheld Wind-Up" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 May 2020 9:45 p.m. PST |
… Pong Clone That Doesn't Use Any Electronics "It's absolutely primitive by today's standards, but when Pong arrived in 1972, it was a technological marvel. So how did Tomy create a handheld knock-off of the game in 1977 when the electronics needed to miniaturize it didn't exist yet? It created this mechanical alternative that might be one of the most bizarre portable gaming machines I've ever seen. Despite a retro-futuristic font and a tagline that blatantly advertises Blip as "The Digital Game," as YouTube's Tech Tangents discovered, the only actual electronics inside Tomy's handheld is a single red LED powered by a pair of AA batteries. It creates the illusion that Blip works just like the arcade and home versions of Pong—the world's first commercially successful video game—but once you open up the housing and peer beneath its fake screen, Blip's old school secrets are revealed…"
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